Re:Earth Overshoot Day
by unregistereddev on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:58AM
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If it is hubris-as-a-sin to think we changed the world for the worse, then it is ignorance-as-a-sin to pretend the massive quantities of fuels we burn would not have an effect on the world.
We can look around us and visibly see changes humans have made to this world. It isn't hard to conjecture that these changes likely have unintended effects.
Why is it hubris? Human beings were behind the ozone hole, and we were also able to stop it.
Re:Earth Overshoot Day
by taylorconor on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:57AM
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> No, we did not
Citation needed
Re:Earth Overshoot Day
by jakelazaroff on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:35AM
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Please just read this: https://xkcd.com/1732/
Re:Earth Overshoot Day
by maxehmookau on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:57AM
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> It is hubris-as-a-sin to think that a) we changed it to the worse
That's demonstrably untrue though and to be blind to that is to be blind to decades of well-researched climate science.
Re:Earth Overshoot Day
by jakelazaroff on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @12:14PM
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Please just read this: https://xkcd.com/1732/
It is hubris-as-a-sin to think that a) we changed it to the worse and b) we are able to change it back.
No, we did not and we can not. There is no single 'climate' also.
All we can do is adapt, but instead we're throwing resources at an altar of a false god so to say.