Homo sapiens couldn’t have survived thousands of years without air conditioning
Correct, localized heat waves don’t kill the entire species. Just individuals in affected areas.
This type of basic logical error is way too common. Just a complete inability to think critically, and when you point out the error they will literally lack the reading comprehension to grasp it.
It is frequently excused that “the human brain simply isn’t designed to think about other people/large numbers/society/long time scales/things we can’t see/etc”. That is bullshit, we can and do understand such things, through science. The human brain has the specific capacity to conceptualize things through reason based on the phenomena we can observe.
Humans existed for thousands of years without capitalism, but kicking and screaming will be the immediate response to any suggestion we overcome it.
Also she’s right to say people could possibly adapt, but what is that even going to look like? Living in underground tunnels? Actual robot pods from the Matrix?
This journalist has no idea and no one else does either, because the only projections we have say the global average temp will get so high to kill us all.
Correct, localized heat waves don’t kill the entire species. Just individuals in affected areas.
This type of basic logical error is way too common. Just a complete inability to think critically, and when you point out the error they will literally lack the reading comprehension to grasp it.
It is frequently excused that “the human brain simply isn’t designed to think about other people/large numbers/society/long time scales/things we can’t see/etc”. That is bullshit, we can and do understand such things, through science. The human brain has the specific capacity to conceptualize things through reason based on the phenomena we can observe.
Humans existed for thousands of years without capitalism, but kicking and screaming will be the immediate response to any suggestion we overcome it.
Also she’s right to say people could possibly adapt, but what is that even going to look like? Living in underground tunnels? Actual robot pods from the Matrix?
This journalist has no idea and no one else does either, because the only projections we have say the global average temp will get so high to kill us all.