Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them

Re:Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Govern... by lanstin on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:07AM (#28535462)

You are asking to predict what people will do in the future. Not a historically profitable venture. Having the Monsoon rains stop dropping snows into the Himalayas would be super bad. Just flooding Bangladesh with a meter or few meters would displace a lot of people less popular than Floridians. Is Montana going to take a few million Muslim refugees?

But maybe like Kim Stanley Robinson’s recent book, it will all work together and we will make a new carbon based cryptocurrency backed by the bankers, switch to blimps and all ends well. I have kids and am teaching them to corporate with people rather than become preppers, so I guess I am optimistic de facto.

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Re:Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Govern... by strken on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:27AM (#28548714)

I'm asking to put some numbers on our predictions in a conversation that's already had us predict what people will do, as a tool to dig deeper into the factors that could lead civilisation to collapse.

Being totally accurate when predicting the future is impossible, but discussion of the factors is useful in its own right.

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Re:Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Govern... by lanstin on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:43PM (#28646930)

I have to disagree. You are asking for a path integral when the local derivatives of various paths are clear, and In a problem space where things can always get worse. Each moment in each place lets climb the curve towards better reality.

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