Again, that's literally not what the IPCC said, the furthest they went was saying "For some people alive today this is a life and death concern"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattyglesias
Again, I'll listen to them over your misrepresentation of their report.
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Replying to @GwylAnarchaidd @mattyglesias
Have you actually read the report? It explicitly DOES NOT talk about hard cutoffs Instead it repeatedly draws a comparison between 1.5 degrees of warming and 2 degrees of warming, saying the 2 degrees scenario is "more extreme" and provides "less opportunity to adapt"
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The summary is online if you want to look at it It's literally incrementalism - "Here's one scenario that's bad and here's one that's worse, with concrete reasons that it's worse" https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/ …
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Listen dude I follow a lot of climate activists who've been talking about this a long time and the biggest consensus is to stay away from rhetoric about hard cutoffs, especially when it leads to disastrous accelerationist rhetoric
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The whole nature of the climate issue is incremental Any mitigation is better than no mitigation A little bit less warming is always an improvement over a little bit more There's no hard cutoff past which you can say "Fuck it, it doesn't matter anymore, let's all get high"
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Accelerationism is especially insane on the issue of climate, where TIMING MATTERS Small things done now have a butterfly effect down the line, a little bit of improvement now is worth a ton more improvement 20 years from now
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The answer to the question "Wouldn't it be better for things to get temporarily bad for four more years under Trump so that it will galvanized a REAL leader to make REAL change later" is always no, but it's ESPECIALLY false for climate
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It's like the situation with the pandemic and the virus' exponential growth What matters most is the first few weeks after the outbreak A mildly bad leader vs a very bad leader is the difference between a few hundred dead or a few hundred thousand
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Even if Trump's mishandling of the pandemic led to him being deposed and replaced by some kind of genius who handled everything perfectly, we would still end up with hundreds of times as many deaths
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When you're playing a game where the first touchdown counts for 100 points and each later one counts for less, there is no good time to make a sacrifice play for a later advantage Every current play is the one that counts
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Eh allowing the other team a goal in order to intentionally injure several of their star players maybe, but they didn’t scan onto your analogy
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"We can't win so let's go for injuries" does, in fact, seem to be what the actual accelerationist mindset is about
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