Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?
by baddox on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:40AM
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I think the biggest counter to that optimism is that while those necessary technologies are being developed, civilization will perhaps be going through major disruption that causes lots of suffering and death. Humans will almost certainly not go extinct, and may even get some great technological advancements out of the ordeal, but at the scale of human lives there will be a lot of suffering.
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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?
by cletus on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @02:34AM
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Oh sure. No argument. My point isn't that it should happen (it shouldn't) or that I don't care (I do). Not that there isn't and won't be suffering (there is and there will be).
My point is that this is unfortunately what human nature is and I don't see any great change tool that unless we get to some kind of post-scarcity situation but I'm reasonably optimistic about that.