Re:2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report
by agumonkey on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:32PM
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Maybe the scope limit of our deep brains is only a "thing" in large groups. Being short sighted is nothing if you're alone, you trip, you choke, you get whacked by a rock. In a semi organized society, the sudden too-late-bound reflex triggers an avalanche of failure.
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Re:2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report
by lukifer on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:18PM
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I would generally agree, which is why I think the discourse around "misinformation" (IMO, both a legitimate concern, and a moral panic) is missing the forest for the trees.
Our failures to respond reasonably and proportionally to threats, be they ecological, medical, economic, military, even political, are all downstream of a crisis of trust, not only in institutions, but in each other. And as with broken trust in personal relationships, rebuilding that trust is non-trivial.