In short, we aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions.

He makes it clear too that this doesn’t mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We’re going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren’t insurmountable and extinction level.

  • @SCB
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    11 year ago

    No, some people dying is not an existential threat to humanity. “Existential” means that the threat will make humanity extinct.

    These are not meaningless semantics. This is core to the message of the article.

    You may in fact be some form of scientist, but you are completely incapable of a realistic discussion of mitigation of and solutions to climate change.

    • @HWK_290
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      11 year ago

      Reading your post history, you seem like a concerned citizen giving reasonable advice. That’s good… My advice: get angry! We needed to be confronting this challenge yesterday. Advocate for your fellow humans. Our way of life is irrevocably lost

      • @SCB
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        11 year ago

        Anger is, generally, a useless emotion.

        I am already an advocate.

    • @HWK_290
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      01 year ago

      You may find this article illuminating, if reading is your thing: Even if humanity does reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to stave off the worst effects of climate change—and learn to adapt to some warming that is already inevitable—Setiya says that climate change remains an existential threat to a host of human cultures, traditions, and languages

      You might want to avoid the preceding paragraph though, as it states “There is a genuine possibility that within the coming century, we will hit temperatures that are deeply incompatible with the continued existence of human life.” Such rampant fear mongering will make you too scawed and make peepee

      • @SCB
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        11 year ago

        I am a literal climate lobbyist, so you don’t need to worry about either my knowledge or my inaction due to fear.

        What are you doing about this problem? If the answer is “doomposting on Lemmy,” thanks for proving everything I’m saying correct.

        • @HWK_290
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          11 year ago

          I work with national and international governments to develop and deploy effective, data-driven, nature-based solutions to mitigate climate impacts and conserve and/or restore natural systems

          We’re on the same side… Let’s fight together!