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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by 1337biz on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:27AM (#21335595)
I just wish there would be a way to hold these doomsday preachers responsible. In the end they will all shrugg it of with that smirk of 'oh back then we didn't know better'.
Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by punnerud on Thursday October 24, 2019 @12:06PM (#21345997)
I am glad they took the responsibility in the 1850-1870 to not burn/chop down most of the forest in Norway. A lot of the places still don’t have trees because of wind and to much water in the ground.
Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by elproxy on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:53PM (#21337635)
Considering we can't hold big oil accountable for burrying the lede on climate change, and electing to spread lies and cause confusion instead, I guess that's fair.
Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by ncmncm on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:25PM (#21337368)
If you know how to manage involuntary migration of 100M-2B population from newly uninhabitable land to established sovereign territory without triggering global thermonuclear warfare, do speak up.
Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by johnmorrison on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:12PM (#21338468)
The governments in those countries have enough resources to buy enough land in colder areas for all their people. Would definitely be economically disadvantageous for the migrant nation, but there's no reason it needs to cause "global thermonuclear warfare"
Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by ncmncm on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:47AM (#21351985)
I see that you have very little acquaintance with politics as it is practiced.

What we see happening in the US, with the small amount of migration occurring so far, is spending $billions on building walls.