Re:The world is awful, the world is much better, the world c...
by 29athrowaway on Thursday July 21, 2022 @08:14AM
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Again, you are not acknowledging the progress traps.
Our solution has always been to migrate to the next place that has resources. But soon there will be no such place.
Re:The world is awful, the world is much better, the world c...
by tsimionescu on Thursday July 21, 2022 @07:31AM
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But we are very visibly NOT doing what needs to be done, particularly in the effort to stop climate change. The world's largest polluter per capita by far is actively opposed to virtually any measures which could stop climate change, and it's using its vast influence to more or less indirectly convince others not to do so. Europeans are also patting their backs for how green they are, while still mostly producing more CO2 per capita than China and India combined.
By MANY measures, the world has been getting gradually better for just about everyone: https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit.... When we look at the facts globally, there is a clear and obvious trajectory.
> Toxic optimism won't make things better. Only acknowledging problems instead of hiding them behind layers of abstraction will.
Who isn't acknowledging problems? My optimism doesn't mean I think there aren't serious, present, and pressing problems (I do!). These problems must be identified, and we must take action to resolve them. I'm just optimistic that we will continue to do so, as we always have. I believe in doing the work involved, and my optimism makes me think it's worth putting in the effort, that it's worth doing the hard yards.