The climate change problem is also unique in human history, as it takes so long to accumulate that it can “boil us slowly” and take so long to get to the sick-of-it phase that we hit tipping points. Some scientifically minded skeptics (like my Dad) dismiss that with “future geoengineering will fix it,” but I’ve read quite a few papers on that, and they are all horrific.
The technonazis are also eliminating the human chain needed to maintain psycological control. That human chain was the foil of every past regime in history.
I agree with your sentiment. Defeatism is harmful, and irrational.
…But we need to look at these problems with clear eyes, too. There are plausible technical reasons this could actually be different.
The nuclear threat never went away.
The climate change problem is also unique in human history, as it takes so long to accumulate that it can “boil us slowly” and take so long to get to the sick-of-it phase that we hit tipping points. Some scientifically minded skeptics (like my Dad) dismiss that with “future geoengineering will fix it,” but I’ve read quite a few papers on that, and they are all horrific.
The technonazis are also eliminating the human chain needed to maintain psycological control. That human chain was the foil of every past regime in history.
I agree with your sentiment. Defeatism is harmful, and irrational.
…But we need to look at these problems with clear eyes, too. There are plausible technical reasons this could actually be different.