Our response to covid has a lot of bad implications for the fight against climate change, a far tougher collective action problem. Among the worst is the exposure of "trust the science" as a kind of secular faith, not a genuine defense of scientific thinking. This took many forms
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Step one of somehow fixing this has to be communicating the core idea of science—that you repeatedly change your mind based on evidence (or lack of evidence!), that you do this rigorously, and that finding out you were wrong about something is a sign that you're winning
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Realistically, though, it's time to start thinking harder about climate mitigation and be more honest in communicating the inevitability of what is coming. Say goodbye to Miami and hello to Canadian beach vacations. Maybe fund some weird science projects at large scale.
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Space mirror, ocean seeding, reforestation, mass electrification, setting off a volcano or two—we should go to town. Humanity can at least go out with a bang, and we have a much better shot at solutions that involve building things than ones that require restraining ourselves
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Probably a good idea to leave a note on the Moon explaining what we tried, unless we're have some plan to use that as planetary sunscreen
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My biggest takeaway was that if we have people who are unwilling to wear a mask to protect themselves and others from an imminent threat, we have no hope of them taking any action that causes discomfort for climate change
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This is one of several reasons I find myself feeling more and more pessimistic about what the future holds for humanity
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"We can't say climate change is real unless we conduct peer-reviewed RCTs showing that it's so"
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I hope I get the control planet
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What is it called when you go from thinking we weren't going to do much to not thinking any different? Solar and batteries will help some, but mostly by accident.
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Compare the accuracy of disease modeling, with much shorter times scales and fewer unknowns, to the results. Now do climate modeling.
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