Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without humans

Re:Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without h... by guntars on Sunday September 26, 2021 @11:37AM (#28661731)

That's not what I took from that comment, but there's another by the same poster that I can't see so maybe that's what they were suggesting there. Obviously, I'd personally vote against any such plan, but the issue is that there might not be a vote. By the looks of it we are inching towards one and half the world is in denial and the other half is arguing about how much beef we should be eating. It's ridiculous.

Anyway, I have no doubts that life and people will be around for a very long time, it's our current lifestyles that are either going to voluntarily change or be changed for us.

So to offer a solution, I think we need to put a dollar value on biodiversity in addition to carbon tax so that these things start to show up on the spreadsheets of people with the actual power to change things.

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Re:Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without h... by true_religion on Sunday September 26, 2021 @12:54PM (#28662423)

I think part of the reason people don’t fight for climate change is that they’d know the planet will recover… if there are few enough people on it.

They assume that they or their defendants will be one of the survivors so there’s nothing to worry about.

It’s the same issue with trying to prevent war when both sides think they can win. Sure there’s hardship but if you win didn’t you come out ahead? No one considers the trauma of the generation that has to actually do the fighting.

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