Addressing the threat of climate change is not going well. Talking about it frankly may be “doomerist” but that does not make it untrue.
We’re producing more CO2 than we ever have. The detrimental effects of CO2 are emerging more quickly than we had thought. All over the world we’re electing governments disinclined to take any action.
To look at this situation and conclude that rolling out solar production is a positive thing is naive.
“This whole climate change thing could be a bit worse, so that’s positive… right?”
I did not, in fact, say you were a bot. I did say you sounded like one while implying you’re the product of an attention economy that rewards consistently extreme positions to the point of absurdity.
Flat earther-adjacent? Yep. Bot? Nope. Actively detrimental to the issue you claim to care about with single-minded obsessiveness? Sadly, yeah.
Being performatively nihilistic about an issue isn’t the same as being realistic, and being willing to acknowledge positive developments in a bad situation isn’t naive. That’s another side effect of the outrage economy.
Once again, for those in the back, climate change isn’t something you fix and the transition to a sustainable energy mix isn’t someting you do. This is an ongoing effort that will continue indefinitely, both in mitigating negative effects that have already been triggered and in reducing or eliminating negative effects still in play. Positive developments will be plentiful along the way, even in situations where the overall trend is negative, or not as positive as it should have been. Boiling it down to a good/bad overall choice is downright infantile.
“I think you’re a bot” is just a cheap insult.
Addressing the threat of climate change is not going well. Talking about it frankly may be “doomerist” but that does not make it untrue.
We’re producing more CO2 than we ever have. The detrimental effects of CO2 are emerging more quickly than we had thought. All over the world we’re electing governments disinclined to take any action.
To look at this situation and conclude that rolling out solar production is a positive thing is naive.
“This whole climate change thing could be a bit worse, so that’s positive… right?”
I did not, in fact, say you were a bot. I did say you sounded like one while implying you’re the product of an attention economy that rewards consistently extreme positions to the point of absurdity.
Flat earther-adjacent? Yep. Bot? Nope. Actively detrimental to the issue you claim to care about with single-minded obsessiveness? Sadly, yeah.
Being performatively nihilistic about an issue isn’t the same as being realistic, and being willing to acknowledge positive developments in a bad situation isn’t naive. That’s another side effect of the outrage economy.
Once again, for those in the back, climate change isn’t something you fix and the transition to a sustainable energy mix isn’t someting you do. This is an ongoing effort that will continue indefinitely, both in mitigating negative effects that have already been triggered and in reducing or eliminating negative effects still in play. Positive developments will be plentiful along the way, even in situations where the overall trend is negative, or not as positive as it should have been. Boiling it down to a good/bad overall choice is downright infantile.