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It’s surreal how quickly this went from being the most important problem in the world to barely being on anyone’s mind, all in less than a decade. I had plenty
by shubhamjain 12d ago
It’s surreal how quickly this went from being the most important problem in the world to barely being on anyone’s mind, all in less than a decade. I had plenty of problems with the fear-mongering and doomed-by-2030 predictions, but the current situation, where we seem basically fine with doing nothing, is genuinely scary. Technology has its limits, billions of people still aspire to a European standard of living, and global population isn’t expected to peak until near the end of this century.
I just hate this post-Trump, post-Covid, post-Russia-Ukraine-war world. I don’t know what the trigger was, but there must have been a point where things just went to shit. And here we are: an increasingly ultra-capitalistic dystopia where wealth seems to be the only thing that matters.
- sajithdilshan 12d agoBecause it’s truly a first world problem. Rest of the world has other problems like hunger, clean drinking water and other basic necessities to solve
- dfdydx 12d agoAren't those "other problems" somewhat affected by climate change though?
- sajithdilshan 12d agoAll those problems were already there even before climate change was a topic, so nothing new regarding that front
- rendaw 12d agoI don't think GP was claiming they weren't.
- dfdydx 11d agoI'd wager they're not binary (absent/present) issues but have many dimensions and a continuum of possible values and thus "climate change makes this problem worse or different" is something new. Random example: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-024-00583-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-024-00583-8