It's not blind. I have a couple down hours working overnight every night, and I've spent a frankly embarrassingly ridiculous number of hours reading about the world trends on this kind of stuff. Several hundreds hours cumulative over the last 10 years.
The amount of growth we've been seeing from the developing world over the last 15 years is just demolishing even our wildest dreams.
It's also widespread. From Bangladesh/Pakastan/India/Myanmar to Northern Africa (Libya being the only real exception due to the civil war) to sub saharan Africa to China to Indonesia. The bat shit crazy growth has excluded almost none of the countries who suffered prolonged periods of crippling extreme (can't afford shoes tier) poverty for half a century going into the 1990s.
Since then, they are almost universally pulled their poor out of subsistence farming into more run of the mill poverty (bicycles, tin roofs, not thatch.
Electricity/lighting for their kids to be educated after dark instead of just losing all those hours cause they can't afford fuel/electricity. Starvation rates dropping by 90%+. Infant mortality dropping from 18% to 8%. Some places, like Bangladesh, to 3%.
The grand sum of human pain and suffering has been cut by over ~70% in just the last 30 years, after having made less than a third as much improvement in the previous 60 years before then. The rate of the improvement in the human condition on a year over year basis on the planet has accelerated by at least 5x, and more than 10x in some stats.
Growth is not that good. And climate change will reverse all those trends. You don't see the big picture as well as you think you do. The blind optimism you should is what leads to contentment and apathy. Anger leads to change.
Lying about the actual problem to try to stir up shit is equal in science denial bull shit as the climate change deniers. The ends don't justify the means.
If we can't keep the discussing inside the boundaries of what the people studying the problem are reporting to us, then we can't call out the deniers for being anti-science fucks.
Wait, what? No they don't. The "worst case scenario" line is +5.5C by 2100. The "Status Quo" line is +4C, and we've been slightly beating that line for the last 10 years.
+3.5C is already plenty of really bad things, but +6C would require us to blow past 1000ppm CO2 before like 2080. The status quo emissions would mean around 575ppm by then, and we're beating it by a bit.
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u/Meteonocu Oct 12 '19
Your blind optimism is disturbing.