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Re:The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of ... by mactavish88 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:43PM (#29555513)
Climate panic isn’t constructive (at best it causes anxiety and depression and energy directed in ways that aren’t constructive, at worst apathy), so I’ve made peace with the prospect of a highly turbulent future.

Some of my personal goals include finding and supporting carbon capture/sequestration efforts, and activism organizations who I believe can lobby for meaningful policy changes in a better direction. That, because I don’t have the skills/network to do something about it directly. If I did I’d be doing something about it directly.

Beyond that, I believe we all have to accept our limitations, that there’s a lot of luck/random chance/etc. in us being alive here on this planet in the first place and be grateful for that, and then do our best to be kind/generous to and have empathy for people suffering from the climate-related disasters.

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Re:The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of ... by xg15 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:50PM (#29557482)
> so I’ve made peace with the prospect of a highly turbulent future.

It remains to be seen whether the highly turbulent future has made peace with you.

If we can believe the predictions, things have just gotten started. However, we can expect more extreme weather events, more large-scale refugee movements and who knows what else, which might also affect day-to-day life in rich countries.

Until we at least have a clearer idea what exactly we can expect in the next decades, I'm not convinced this "making peace", trusting, we'll "adapt" is any more realistic than some procrastinaling college student who fully trusts his future self to wing that term assignment in an allnighter.

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Re:The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of ... by mactavish88 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:06PM (#29557740)
Who said anything about being confident in our ability to adapt? I’m totally fine with the worst case possibility that we’re facing an extinction-level event here with the looming climate disasters. If that’s what nature is going to give us, what choice do I have but to accept it?
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Re:The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of ... by AlexCoventry on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:57PM (#29557596)
> trusts his future self to wing that term assignment in an allnighter.

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_(novel)

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Re:The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of ... by jahnu on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:49PM (#29555616)
I agree. However, I do wish to note that bad actors are recasting urgency as panic.
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Re:The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of ... by mactavish88 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @02:19PM (#29556066)
The difference, as always, lies in action. Talk is cheap (and even cheaper than ever in the age of social media).
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Re:The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of ... by Fervicus on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @02:51PM (#29556565)
There are also bad actors using panic nefariously, to the detriment of actual progress.
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