Climate hopelessness is a perfectly rational stance given the current state of the world, and I find myself getting increasingly irked by the moralizing against it on social media. People seem incapable of distinguishing between cynicism and squarely facing an unpleasant reality.
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I’ve been, occasionally, and not as often as I’d like, surprised when my natural pessimism about structurally similar problems has proven excessive. Eg, we eliminated smoking in most public indoor spaces in a very short time period.
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The most hopeful thing is the speed at which solar is dropping in price and still dropping. I'm much more confident now that we'll quickly decarbonize the power grid. https://rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/solars-future-is-insanely-cheap-2020/ … https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth …
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I had the same thought myself last night. C19 is tractable in comparison to climate: we know what we have to do, it's globally affordable, and the consequences of not doing are just as bad for everyone. And yet ...https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/03/vaccines-outpaced-by-variants-who-warns-as-delta-now-in-98-countries …
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We definitely didn’t solve it but we made it a lot less worse. Even with everything broken. You can see it in all the spikes that happened and the human behavior changes that stopped taking it seriously that happened immediately before. They highlight what we *were* doing.
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IMO the C19 pandemic is a great parallel. While we could not muster any reasonable full avoidance of the situation, we all took some amounts of action which mapped imperfectly to some amounts of determining how bad it ultimately got.
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