Why Are Developers Still Pouring Billions into Waterlogged Miami?

Re:Why Are Developers Still Pouring Billions into Waterlogge... by cr0sh on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @01:09PM (#13064859)

> And that is fundamentally what makes climate change so difficult to deal with. The economic incentives, which only really look 5-10-15 years out, can't respond to consequences that are 50-100 years out, and by then it's really too late.

On the global level (let's say 50-100 years out), do you think we as a species are headed toward an "Easter Island" effect, where we "whistle past the graveyard" and assume everything is "fine" - until it isn't - and at that point we can't do anything and have to deal with the potentially existential consequences?

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Re:Why Are Developers Still Pouring Billions into Waterlogge... by anexprogrammer on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @02:46PM (#13065689)

Very much so. We still have the foot hard on the gas. We haven't even got 10 years of business as usual.

The conversation at the moment is about power, but moves to get off fossil are, globally, token. The conversation hasn't got to agri-business, deforestation and meat especially beef, or population, or water. Forests are still being felled and burnt for cattle and palm oil, new fracking is still reported as opportunity for jobs and profit.

I'm starting to arrive at the belief that my children's best hope is being amongst the 100m or so left.

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Re:Why Are Developers Still Pouring Billions into Waterlogge... by pkituu on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:55PM (#13067287)

http://www.lunarbaboon.com/comics/imminent.html

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Re:Why Are Developers Still Pouring Billions into Waterlogge... by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @02:23PM (#13065518)

At the moment, yes we are.

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Re:Why Are Developers Still Pouring Billions into Waterlogge... by throwayawnotime on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @02:54PM (#13065748)

I do

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