I’m in two minds about this Atlantic article urging a less urgent attitude on climate.https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/02/other-side-catastrophe/617865/ …
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I get the sentiment. There is an annoying kind of climate activist whose shtick is to constantly tweet stuff like “we need dramatic, massive concerted international action NOW!!” suggesting something like Covid-or-higher level of disruption, sustained for a decade.
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Greta Thunberg has joined this tribe, now as an adult. I’m not quite sure what this crowd wants to see, but it feels like they have dreams of legions of bureaucrats administered by someone like Fauci, driving relentlessly. Think masking but for low-carbon living.
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This rhetoric is futile, annoying, counterproductive, and doesn’t map to anything large human masses have ever show capacity for doing. In fact Covid has shown us collapsing under a third of the lifestyle stress they expect us to keep up for a decade. Something doesn’t compute.
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BUT... they’re not wrong about one thing. If action is warranted at all, it does mean changing business as usual. There is no gentle acceleration of a non-disruptive current tendency that meets the urgency-of-action constraints. You might as well do nothing if you insist on that.
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I think we do need dramatic, discontinuously shifted, urgent action. But not as a general exhortation. What are we all supposed to do? Recycle faster? There’s an operational ovation gap between the rhetorical urgency on display and mechanisms of action.
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Replying to @trycypress @vgr
perhaps you could ask them nicely to deindustrialize and be overthrown by angry citizens idkpic.twitter.com/NZPmsNmUFC
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im just skeptical anything else matters much without their buy in
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the graph says we also need to nuke Other Countries - it's a stupid name for a state anyway
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