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quest1on World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency

Articles about Climate Change seem to get very few comments on Hacker News. I think nearly every other article on the home page right now has more comments including an articles about building a flying taxi (47 comments).

Honest Question: Why is there seemingly such little interest in what very well could be a huge threat to the survival of humanity?

I asked a similar question here - and it got 0 comments! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21027145

quest1on Charts show how little progress has been made in limiting greenhouse emissions

> There's just no basis for that belief in the actual evidence.

You Sir have clearly not been paying attention. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabi...

> Let's be very conservative and assume global GDP per capita grows at 2% per year. In the baseline scenario, the median world citizen would still be 390% richer than the average person today. Applying the worst global warming impact (20% of GDP), the median person would still be 290% richer than the average person today.

This is an absolutely stunning claim to make. It assume growth can just continue in perpetuity forever as if no external factors (food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation, air pollution, global pandemics, extreme weather events, ocean rise etc) could possibly have any impact on that continued growth.

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