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0 pointstimr3y ago0 comments

Let's be really clear: it's not going to "directly" kill many people at all in the next ten years.

People will die from things like storms and floods and heat waves and droughts. Maybe more people will die from causes that someone, somewhere attributes to climate, but these are all indirect.

The real, immediate threat of climate is that we'll have to spend huge amounts of money mitigating these things.

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mbgerring3y ago

The “real, immediate threat of climate” is trillions of dollars changing hands? A massive TAM, with tons of otherwise intelligent people distracted by chatbots and crypto?

Sorry… this is supposed to be a threat? What are you threatening me with, a good time?

timrOP3y ago

I mean, yes? I'd personally rather see money spent on housing and feeding and educating people than building new seawalls. Particularly in places like Bangladesh, which are both poor and low-lying.

The collective delusion of the climate conversation is that first-world countries are going to be the ones who suffer, but that isn't what the risk looks like at all. For example, New York City will be OK, even though mass media loves to show apocalyptic visions of the climate future set in lower Manhattan.

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