Humans are not a way to solve climate change, climate change is a way to solve humans. #darkwednesdaythoughts
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Replying to @Plinz
Caring about climate change is like caring about being run over by drunk driver. Sure you can ban cars and alcohol and live the rest of your life with more comfort and less fun. But you will die anyway - surely, certainly and soon
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Replying to @NechayevDmitry
Climate change is about whether your children will be run over by a drunk driver.
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Replying to @Plinz
But it does not change the point. Our civilization will expire this way or another, and the question is whether we want to focus on the problems that more likely will kill us prematurely (inequality,extremism) or whether we want to focus on what may hit if we live old enough
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Replying to @NechayevDmitry
Do you think that the population reduction from inequality and extremism is by itself an existential risk? The actual effect on life expectancy and birth rate seems to be negligible? Do you think it is more concerning than, say, a 40% reduction of agricultural productivity?
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Replying to @Plinz @NechayevDmitry
where does the 40% reduction in ag productivity number come from?
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my prior would be that climate change leaves long run world ag productivity unchanged or improved (higher CO2 in atmosphere def helpful) while causing massive shifts in where that ag productivity is possible
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I may not be enough concerned about the effect of migratory movements and localized hunger wars, and too much about the large scale loss of open air agriculture due to season instability, extreme weather events, desertification, wildfires, acidification, tipping oceans etc.
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