Reduction of Sulfur Emissions from Ships May Be Causing Rising Sea Temperatures

Re:Reduction of Sulfur Emissions from Ships May Be Causing R... by at_a_remove on Saturday August 05, 2023 @09:12PM (#37017956)

See, this is what I am talking about. You immediately leap to the problems of the past as a way to misinterpret what was said. This is why people simply cannot agree on a way forward and why Nature will be doing it for us. Some have even codified this into an ethical stance.

And so the scavengers will feast and the plagues will bloom again. And because no-one will agree, we will have little local wars over resources. Maybe someone will grab a warhead or two. Technology still keeps happening, so expect at least one plague to be targeted. And some group will have a "if we can't have it, nobody can," so a self-irradiated country will get to keep a resource out of some other group's hands. You'll get real genocides, then.

Nobody wants to participate in the one way of getting their hands bloody, pretending that they won't get bloody later on, up to the elbows.

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Re:Reduction of Sulfur Emissions from Ships May Be Causing R... by UncleMeat on Monday August 07, 2023 @05:35PM (#37041279)

You can feel free to detail your proposed way forward. But I don't think I've ever seen anything proposed that isn't active genocide of the less powerful, let along anything resembling justice. Maybe all the mass executions in your plan will be of wealthy and middle class Americans. You might surprise me.

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Re:Reduction of Sulfur Emissions from Ships May Be Causing R... by at_a_remove on Monday August 07, 2023 @06:52PM (#37042030)

There's no executions planned. None. Zero. I just ... if this is really where your mind goes, we may as well saddle up for Nature's Own Holocausts.

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Re:Reduction of Sulfur Emissions from Ships May Be Causing R... by UncleMeat on Monday August 07, 2023 @07:17PM (#37042246)

Well if billions of people need to die and it isn't nature doing it, what's it gonna be?

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Re:Reduction of Sulfur Emissions from Ships May Be Causing R... by at_a_remove on Monday August 07, 2023 @08:49PM (#37043043)

... you really can't seem to figure out a third proposal for changing a population number from N to some number less than N? Have you excluded the middle that hard that only orchestrated murder or Nature's nasty negligence are the only things which appear to you? If you are legitimately that baffled, I am not sure we can manage to communicate at all.

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