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Yeah but why did they need to get political about it?/s
$$$
While kicking The can down the road, you come across a sign.
BRIDGE OUT AHEAD
What do you do?
- Continue kicking the can, I’m sure it’ll be fine.
- I don’t believe in bridges.
- Even if God let the bridge collapse, which he wouldn’t, I’ll go to heaven if I fall and die, so who cares?
- Pick up the can and go find a dumpster.
- There’s squirrels in my pants! Jump to safety!
It’s a good thing someone noticed this back then, and the world dumped the coal industry. Imagine how fucked we’d be now if this was completely ignored.
Aren’t there still people trying to suggest that we still don’t know if climate change is scientifically understood/proven? This is crazy that we knew about this so long ago!
Not seriously, no. Are there people lying in order to betray their entire species for absolutely no benefit? Yes.
No benefit? No, of course not. But for more money to the shareholders of the oil and coal companies which some politicians either are or get payed by. OF COURSE! They will do it gladly with a smile.
Renewables aren’t funded anything close to what governments of any country spend on oil and coal companies, and that’s for the benefit of the very few people who own them.
Didn’t we already figure out the whole climate change story way back long ago? And the only reason why we didn’t do anything about it were studies funded by the oil industry so that they absolutely have to show there was “no link” between our CO2 emissions and the global temperature? Because I’m pretty sure that’s the story.
Solé’s fantastic and extremely recommendable book “Phase Transitions” covers this as well. Quoting Janssen et al.: “even when the group is faced with negative results, members may not suggest abandoning an earlier course of action, since this might break the existing unanimity.”
“More generally, the underlying problem here is why complex societies might fail to adapt […]. Even if there is some social perception of risk, short-term thinking often prevails when facing long-term vulnerabilities. Such undesirable behavior is often favored by a combination of incomplete understanding of the problem, together with the misleading view that all changes are reversible.”misleading view that all changes are reversible
That is chilling.
Because they never account for exponential consumption growth. It was “a few centuries” at current consumption.
Woke. Cancel them. Get politics out of my newspapers.
They have already been canceled.
To be fair, in 1912 it was not at all obvious at which scale humanity started to burn everything after 1950.
Only one century has passed since then, so we’re still good. It’s pollutin’ time!
Idk why but captain planet popped up in my head when I read the last sentence.
Chat, is this real?
1&1/10th is indeed a very few centuries.
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
Gramma was a toddler.
WARKWORTH was Wokewarth, am I right?
More like decades
Many decades have past since 1912 and we are still here.
