The pandemic has taught me that humans will roundly ignore even the most glaring evidence to avoid accepting bad things are happening. I can't see how we're ever going to be able to avert climate disaster when we can't even get everyone to take basic precautions against a global pandemic.
what evidence? "in 1968, Ehrlich warned of imminent population explosion and hundreds of millions of people starving to death"
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Food has never been more abundant, plentiful and inexpensive https://www.wfdd.org/story/food-growing-more-plentiful-so-wh...
Pardon me for ignoring what this fear monger and crackpot has to say.
And due to advances in agricultural technology, since the Population Bomb book was published, global population has doubled while hunger has greatly diminished.
So wouldn’t the answer be more technology & wealth, not less?
People who don't know insist too that Y2K was a big nothing, but it was nothing only because of $billions spent to ensure that it would be.
People who don't know say the same about whales, acid rain and stratospheric ozone. Same thing: global effort, crisis reduced, although further effort needed.
2038 still looms, but much has been done already.
Some cultures, as it turns out, are better than others at dealing with stresses like this.
Changing culture is a big project. We can try though because we don't actually have any other option.
And in this you are competing with a few donations without a feedback loop against the oil industry that have plenty of money and that kind of feedback loops, for just one culture that need to be changed.
And to make things even more unfair, they can use all the dirty tricks they want (plain lies, exploiting bias, pushing disinformation, bribing politicians, etc), while you can only use the, sometimes hard to get for the uneducated, truth.
For my buy-in, change agents are encouraged to:
- begin with absolute truth
- develop an unambiguous, existentially complete solution
- let that solution sell itself through its inarguable superiority
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Anything less than that risks coming off as so much bullying.
I oppose this 100%, I take the "ghastly future of mass extinction" very serious and my solution would be to introduce a close to zero birthrate of the extremely overpopulated species of Homo Sapiens. I do not however take this pandemic serious at all and it is NOTHING compared to what is and will happen in the "ghastly future".
We are living in a planetary wide human farm, they told us this was gonna happen! And it will happen again and again until we have devoured the planet.
Hm. How serious should we take this pledge now?
The first place I looked up was England - the Met Office graph seems to indicate a rise. [1]
Have you got any examples of flat graphs?
Miami Florida December 2000 (peak day-average is 77.08): https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/us/fl/miami/KMI...
Miami Florida December 2020 (peak day-average is 76.69): https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/us/fl/miami/KMI...
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Honolulu, Hawaii December 1995 (peak day-average is 79.92): https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/us/hi/honolulu/...
Honolulu, Hawaii December 2020 (peak day-average is 79.54): https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/us/hi/honolulu/...
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You can use that site to look up the same month 20+ years apart in any place and it clearly shows that there is no significant change at all. You can browse the surrounding years to get a better feeling because there can be random 2 to 3 degree fluctuations but my point is that these fluctuations can go either way and there is no correlation with time.
TBH, I'm surprised that, given that there is an incentive for meteorologists to fake the data (since global warming is their bread and butter) that it's still possible to see proper data which certainly matches my personal observations. IMO it's a matter of time before they start faking historical data. Good we have waybackmachine https://archive.org/web/
The country I live in has had the average temperature steadily rise by a full degree over the last 30 years. Which is visible in changes in flora and fauna and extreme weather.
Really makes me wonder where you get your data.
