This is the problem. There is on political realization, no government planning, no research, no scientific studies, no one doing anything in any meaningful way, of asking what is going to happen.
We are totally flying blind.
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We are totally flying blind.
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https://twitter.com/IanJSinclair/status/1856036494693282227
Think of the chaos, which happened in Valencia, the total unpreparedness, the headless chick approach. Then multiply it by thousands or millions of times, across society globally.
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Scientists have been giving warnings for 50+ years about ecological collapse, the Limits of Growth being exceeded, climate impacts, Planetary Boundaries being breached.
But no one has been researching, what this actually means, for our Civilization?
3/pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
But no one has been researching, what this actually means, for our Civilization?
3/pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
No one has been researching the interactions of these massive environmental impacts, with our societies, our economies, and the dynamics of this.
Just pie in the sky BS about geoengineering, NETs, CCS, billionaires flying to Mars etc.
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Just pie in the sky BS about geoengineering, NETs, CCS, billionaires flying to Mars etc.
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Talk about total denial and fantasy escapism!
You would have thought the biggest challenge that has ever faced humanity, and it's not me saying that - someone would have actually been studying what it actually means for us.
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You would have thought the biggest challenge that has ever faced humanity, and it's not me saying that - someone would have actually been studying what it actually means for us.
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But no. The markets will respond, humanity will suddenly come together, and apply these fantasy techno-fixes, that will never work. We'll be saved, so no need to think about it.
WTAF!!!!
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WTAF!!!!
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Then Dr Michael Mann, Dr Katharine Hayoe et al, just labelling anyone thinking about it, as doomerists.
This hysterical, way of stopping anyone even thinking about it.
Thinking about reality, is not allowed.
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This hysterical, way of stopping anyone even thinking about it.
Thinking about reality, is not allowed.
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In the UK we have @Keir_Starmer's government, going all out for economic growth, to make a marvellous future for the UK, when the science tells us that globally, we are in deep shit. Up shit creek without a paddle. AMOC collapse, might be a fly in the ointment.
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Then we have the American solution. To vote in climate change denier and total idiot, wannabe fascist, Donald Trump as president, and he'll ban even mentioning climate change, whilst making America great again.
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Nero fiddling whilst Rome burns, ain't got anything on this total denialism, where we must not think about it, at all.
Lest it upset the financial markets, then destroy the trip of the billionaires on their way to becoming trillionaires.
10/theweek.com/finance/101932…
Lest it upset the financial markets, then destroy the trip of the billionaires on their way to becoming trillionaires.
10/theweek.com/finance/101932…
Why don't all the environmentalists, and progressives just bugger off to Bluesky, so they can preach to the converted, and chatter with each other about their 1001 competing, plans to avoid the collapse.
Best no one think about what is actually going to happen!
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Best no one think about what is actually going to happen!
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I've spent the last 50 years time, thinking about what is actually going to happen.
The big thing I've discovered, is no one is at all interested in what is actually going to happen, by having a good close look at how we got where we are and the thinking that enabled it.
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The big thing I've discovered, is no one is at all interested in what is actually going to happen, by having a good close look at how we got where we are and the thinking that enabled it.
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