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Re:The Non-Expert Problem and Climate Change Science by setr on Monday December 05, 2016 @02:39PM (#13108580)
Actually, if you look at the link for "Adam's Law of Slow-Moving Disasters", it states: The idea is that society always avoids global disasters that are slow-moving because we rise to the challenge even when it seems impossible.

In other words, he believes (w.r.t individuals not solving the large problem) its safe to ignore large problems because "we have an unbroken track record of avoiding doom".

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Re:The Non-Expert Problem and Climate Change Science by DannyB2 on Monday December 05, 2016 @03:05PM (#13108915)
A problem with unbroken track records is that they can eventually be broken.
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Re:The Non-Expert Problem and Climate Change Science by tdb7893 on Monday December 05, 2016 @03:42PM (#13109303)
I think it's kinda making the argument of "humanity always avoids large disasters" means that "humanity doesn't need to work to fix large disasters". I think this is wrong and we have avoided most large disasters by actually expending effort to fix them (e.g. Y2K). I think the thesis falls apart if you stop trying to actually attempt to make it better, which is what people are advocating for climate change.
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