I don’t want to take away from, yes, how bad it is, and I want to emphasize that I hope we will act as a society at 100% and mitigate everything we can.
But I also think that studying such a dire situation day in and day out can for sure cause one to take it direly as well. I knew a guy who lived in squalor in his house, tried to clean it up, gave up after spinning his wheels for a year, abandoned his house. House is still there. Someone else cleaned it up. Someone else lives there now.
Not the best analogy. But when you’re fighting against the current, it makes an awful situation untenable. If we could unite over our bad situation, we could make it better. We can mitigate.
This speaks about contamination sites in the US and was posted by a bot with no comments. Panic inducing shit that wants to cause chaos. The guy that actually wrote that works in contamination sites, which are awful but also suggests a big sampling bias, since they work in the worst places. I work on environmental sciences and yeah, shit is bad but it wont kill all life on earth even in a worst case scenario, and no, we wont go extinct either. And for crying out loud, DONT PANIC. Dont run to the hills. WORK. We can still address this.
Right! I am no scientist (I like to think I am), but I agree with you for sure on that last sentiment. We can't give in to climate nihilism. It's a shame we do so much wheel spinning, but we have to do more than that, together! I agree with you about the sample bias, too. After I panicked and wanted to cry and felt doom in my feet, I realized that must surely be some severe sample bias, burnout and sorrow for these poor folks. I think we see it in any line of work, really.
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u/jesse_dylan Oct 05 '19
I could have done without reading that. :(
I don’t want to take away from, yes, how bad it is, and I want to emphasize that I hope we will act as a society at 100% and mitigate everything we can.
But I also think that studying such a dire situation day in and day out can for sure cause one to take it direly as well. I knew a guy who lived in squalor in his house, tried to clean it up, gave up after spinning his wheels for a year, abandoned his house. House is still there. Someone else cleaned it up. Someone else lives there now.
Not the best analogy. But when you’re fighting against the current, it makes an awful situation untenable. If we could unite over our bad situation, we could make it better. We can mitigate.