Is climate change bad? Very bad, existentially bad. Do I want it to happen? No. Do I try to take steps to mitigate it? Yes, I put my drop in the bucket and vote for people who support policies that would help.
But we’re eyeballs deep in Brandolini’s Law at this point and by the time we get ourselves out of the quicksand, massive change will have taken its toll.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t take action, but working ourselves in to a spittle-flecked outrage everytime someone says something stupid on social media is a waste of energy when we’re already in damage control mode. The battle lines have been drawn for decades and the backlash effect is a very real phenomena.
Economics is going to win this fight before logic and debate does.
I just talk about climate change as if it is settled fact. Especially when I’m talking to someone who I know is a climate change denier, I just don’t even consider their position to be worthy of acknowledgment anymore. Sometimes, I’ll try to work in a common climate denial phrase as an example of just abject stupidity in modern society.
Example: the other day I was talking to a dude at a bar who was pretty clearly on the coal will save the world wagon, and AI came up. I said: “we lost the AI race to China back around 2008, when some [r-word], said the words ‘clean coal’ and people clapped instead of laughing at the idiot”. Then I watched the gears turn.
Climate change deniers.
Is climate change bad? Very bad, existentially bad. Do I want it to happen? No. Do I try to take steps to mitigate it? Yes, I put my drop in the bucket and vote for people who support policies that would help.
But we’re eyeballs deep in Brandolini’s Law at this point and by the time we get ourselves out of the quicksand, massive change will have taken its toll.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t take action, but working ourselves in to a spittle-flecked outrage everytime someone says something stupid on social media is a waste of energy when we’re already in damage control mode. The battle lines have been drawn for decades and the backlash effect is a very real phenomena.
Economics is going to win this fight before logic and debate does.
I just talk about climate change as if it is settled fact. Especially when I’m talking to someone who I know is a climate change denier, I just don’t even consider their position to be worthy of acknowledgment anymore. Sometimes, I’ll try to work in a common climate denial phrase as an example of just abject stupidity in modern society.
Example: the other day I was talking to a dude at a bar who was pretty clearly on the coal will save the world wagon, and AI came up. I said: “we lost the AI race to China back around 2008, when some [r-word], said the words ‘clean coal’ and people clapped instead of laughing at the idiot”. Then I watched the gears turn.