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Re:The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s ... by Udik on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:08AM (#25939423)
I keep reading of a "climate crisis", and yet cannot see first hand any actual manifestation of it outside of the newspaper headlines. There is a covid crisis going on, and I can see that well, affects me personally, affects the economy, affects the country. A climate crisis? Absolutely not. There are climate-connected adverse events here and there in the world, some with higher frequency than in the past, but do these collect together into a global "climate crisis"? I certainly don't see it.
Re:The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s ... by fogihujy on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:52AM (#25939705)
The climate is changing, and it seems to be primarily caused by human activity. With change comes unpredictability and unpredictability results in perceived (and potentially actual ) instability of systems that have been in place for millennia.

If you're lucky you won't experience any crisis first-hand but for the ones experiencing things like random famines, water-shortages, poverty and conflict, all due to "climate-connected adverse effects here and there in the world", it will be life-altering.

It's not going to be the end of the World, and while the climate changes may be very long-term, life will adapt and overcome. That doesn't mean that humanity won't have a very rough ride going forward.

Re:The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s ... by Udik on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:00AM (#25940798)
> perceived (and potentially actual )

>If you're lucky you won't experience any crisis first-hand

Ok, so is it here or not?

> for the ones experiencing things like random famines, water-shortages, poverty and conflict

All of which existed before climate change (since ever, actually), and are due to a multiplicity of factors of which climate is just one, and probably one of the least relevant.

>going to be >may be >going forward

So is there a crisis right now or not?

Re:The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s ... by fogihujy on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:59AM (#25941209)
> So is there a crisis right now or not?

That is the beauty of it all; even if climate change only works as a nudge that causes a series of events to escalate, there will still be other factors to take into account. Solving climate change won't change that.

Is the house on fire? Or is there just a large number of small fires in the basement, on the roof, in the outer walls and some of the curtains?

The consequences, so far, are manageable in most cases. Whether we're in a crisis already, or just having a few problems that we know will escalate into a crisis at some point, is rather irrelevant when it comes to preventing further damage from being done.

Re:The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s ... by mnd999 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:58AM (#25939745)
You missed all those wildfires then?