I know this is satire, but having a few years of farewell-themed Arctic cruises is a legit fantastic idea. (The Antarctic has a more complicated response to climate change and we can save it for later)https://www.theonion.com/norwegian-cruise-line-introduces-now-or-never-tour-of-1847082526 …
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The part of the "Climate Emergency" messaging I hate is the implication that we can save things if we act aggressively right now. We are not being honest with people. The choice is between a 3º and 4ºC warmer world (or whatever it is), not about preserving what we have right now.
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We're also not being honest about who will get to make the choice, which is basically billions of people in Asia who might prefer a hot industrialized life where you can blast the A/C to slightly less hot subsistence farming. You can't just tell them 'no' so we can keep Miami.
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My rosy outcome scenario for global warming is massive population shifts out of the American south and West that fix the rural skew in Senate representation, and a Florida that finally submerges just as it becomes a Republican lock.
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Final point in this rant—it's incoherent to say climate change is a crisis if you oppose good old American fission. Nuclear energy is (bright, glowing) green energy that requires no technological breakthroughs, emits no carbon, and we should be building reactors by the dozen.
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Not sure if pointing this out makes me a Debbie Downer but "there aren't enough technocrats trying to make a killing off mass death and destruction" is a good thing, actually. We want less of that, not more.
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