Pro tip: if someone says they're 'very concerned' about climate change, ask them if they're more worried about permafrost melting or about methane clathrate melting. If they don't have an answer ready, they weren't 'concerned' enough to learn much about climate change.
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Yes, that's certainly true. But I suspect there is a good psychological/practical reason for that. AI, for example, could result in a near species-ending situation on the same time frame as climate change, if general AI is achieved somewhat faster than expected. But it's not ...
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C’est la vie. Some things never change.
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Until quite recently climate change got very little airtime, and it still doesn't get that much, not compared to its seriousness. But then neither did global pandemics.
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That's a fair point, considering climatologists and other experts started sounding the alarm in this in the 70s. As a species, we tend to act when a problem is at our doorstep. Yet this problem requires us to act now to avoid catastrophic problems later. Are we capable?
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