We've already passed the 1.5 Degree Celsius limit on global warming. That alone has catastrophic consequences.
Yet, the production of fossil fuels remains near record levels, and producers are aiming to scale up, as opposed to scale down. Political discourse on this topic often amounts to "but my expenses are already too high."
For many people, this is still an abstract and slow moving problem. Yet, it is a very real problem with dire consequences. (That are somehow easy to ignore!)
Is the world getting worse?
In some ways, it's getting better.
Yet, we seem doomed to cause so much destruction. It's gonna be bad. Very bad. But not right away (for many of us).
While I agree that global warming is a serious issue without a clear future, it seems a little far fetched to attribute that as a factor in the deterioration of hackernews community's cultural standards.
Yet, the production of fossil fuels remains near record levels, and producers are aiming to scale up, as opposed to scale down. Political discourse on this topic often amounts to "but my expenses are already too high."
For many people, this is still an abstract and slow moving problem. Yet, it is a very real problem with dire consequences. (That are somehow easy to ignore!)
Is the world getting worse?
In some ways, it's getting better.
Yet, we seem doomed to cause so much destruction. It's gonna be bad. Very bad. But not right away (for many of us).
https://www.sei.org/publications/production-gap-report-2023/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/0...