Re:2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's ...
by gdubs on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:22PM
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Sorry if this post seemed like a response to yours. It’s not. I didn’t find your post unreasonable, nor did I think you were implying that climate change is non-existent. You simply were pointing out fire’s role in nature, and I added my own response in-line with your post to call out what I see as a distinction between milder forest fires and the ones that are becoming more common today.
In general I aim to respond to people directly if I disagree :)
[But in this particular case I was responding in frustration to a trend of comments, not one in particular.]
I’m sorry that my post added additional stress to your day — it really was not my intention.
Re:2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's ...
by DoreenMichele on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:40PM
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So it bothers you that during a global pandemic, people weren't wrist-slashingly depressed for five minutes and you felt it was important they return to that state to gratify you in some way?
I'm not someone saying climate change is a hoax, nor am I saying that concerns about it are mere fear mongering. But I see nothing to be gained by concluding we are clearly doomed already and should just throw in the towel now.
That's called self fulfilling prophecy. If we make zero effort to find a path forward, you can bet dollars to donuts we won't find a path forward.
I'm an environmental studies major myself, though I never completed my bachelor's degree. I also have a lot of personal reasons why my personal philosophy can be boiled down to "It's the end of the world as we know it -- and I feel fine."
I said nothing about climate change at all. Jumping to conclusions about my opinions on that topic is entirely unwarranted.
I'm guilty of being an optimist. I've been guilty of that my entire life. Previous remark by me about being an optimist in the face the shit really hitting the fan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22619932
Sorry the world is all stressed. When I was homeless and dying of CF and it was just my life that was a personal apocalypse, no one was all up in arms about needing to rescue me. You will have to excuse me for failing to wring my hands about how other people are now running around screaming "The sky is falling" now that the seeming apocalypse is larger than just my personal reality.
I didn't die on the street. I got healthier and back in housing. Life goes on.
And it will probably go on for most of the rest of the world after Mother Nature has once again proven that scientists don't know everything there is to know about this world.