Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?

Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:13AM (#18184076)

Human societies can have individuals doing all that. Stable, large societies. The astronauts can survive in the vacuum of space because of technology, and they can get to space because of technology - technology that is backed by hundreds of thousands of people all across the greater economic machine that built the rocket and the space suits, and supplied and fed everyone involved.

As individuals, we're not much more interesting than any other animal. It's our technological civilization that makes us interesting in the grand scheme of things, and that civilization is both hard to bootstrap and extremely fragile.

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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? by jjeaff on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:49AM (#18186022)

Without our technology, we can still run farther and longer than any other species, use our delicate fingers and opposable thumbs, control fire, and make and use tools and solve relatively complex puzzles. As a species, without our tech, we are head and shoulders above most species.

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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:37PM (#18187157)

Sort of. But fire and tools are technology, the very lowest tier. Our ability to stack technology, to use tools to build better tools, is what makes us interesting - as long as we actually make use of this ability.

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