Not through any extensive global effort but rather via new technology and pure self-interest.
Sure. But too many people don't want to embrace any new technologies, they want to keep burning fossil fuels, and they want them to be cheap, even if it takes subsidies to do it. Basically people in general pay lip service to climate change and environmental concerns in general but when comes down to doing something about it nobody wants to be inconvenienced in any way shape or form so nothing gets done. You can sit there and say "oh, well, it's never happened in the past and I really don't think it'll happen in the future it's all Gloom and Doom and you're all just spreading FUD" but hear this: what the entire goddamned science community is saying only has to be right ONCE for us to be PERMANENTLY FUCKED. You can call that "gloom and doom" and FUD all you want but you cannot refute my logic: It can fail to happen infinite times, but it only has to be correct ONCE. You really want to risk everything getting fucked permanently just so you can keep driving a gasoline-powered car and having cheap electricity from coal-burning power plants, and all the other polluting shit we do that's old and cheap right now? If you say 'yes' then consider yourself punched in the face because people that say 'yes' to the above have outlived my patience with them.
To be clear: I don't totally agree with everything she says. In this particular case, she sounds like she's going to start talking about so-called 'UBI' -- which I don't believe is a good idea in any way, shape, or form. People who have the motivation to work taken away from them just plain won't work at all, in spite of what UBI proponents claim about people 'finding their purpose', or 'being creative', or stuff like that: most people will just fritter away their lives and do essentially nothing of value for it. Meanwhile, go right ahead and try taking away the trillions that The Rich have accumulated, and see how far you get with that idea. If there was ever anything that would start Civil War 2, that's near the top of the list. You think The Rich won't fight back? Hell yes, they'll fight tooth and nail to keep their money and their power, and they'll buy armies and topple governments to keep what's theirs. You think the world is fucked right now? It's playtime compared to what the world would be like once The Rich are threatened and go on the attack with their trillions.
What we really need is a way to make all that money worthless that's been accumulated by The Rich, nullifying their power along with it. Your best guess as to how to accomplish that.
Because maybe, just maybe, we can manage to evolve past this selfish baby-stage, where we just exploit the crap out of everything and everyone around us, destroying everything in our wake, and actually survive, as a species, to the point where we're actually enlightened? You know, not cause our own extinction-level event? At least long enough to GTFO of this planet and have a permanent presence elsewhere? Seriously, if all we're going to do is just fuck ourselves over and die off as a species anyway then we may as well just push the gods-be-damned Big Red Button and launch all the missiles now and get it over with.
Is this Venture Capitalist clickbait? Are they just trolling for research grant money? Sheesh. I've got a vivid imagination and love science fiction, but this is so far out from anything even remotely practical that I don't know what else to think. Trying to create Warp Drive would be more practical.
Yeah sure let's have the Average Person wade through tons of whitepapers that they won't have a clue how to understand or interpret so they throw up their hands and just forget all about it, I'm sure that serves your agenda very well.
I see the Republicans and science-hating religious types have mod points to spend today and have vandalized my comment: https://slashdot.org/comments.... screw you people politicizing everything. Disagreeing with me doesn't make me a troll it makes me INCONVENIENT TO YOU and that's all.
I'm a registered Democrat (only recent; was Independent) and I'm an advocate of nuclear power. We can make it safer and it solves the majority of our problems in one fell swoop. Now if we can convince everyone else...
Bite me, myopian. Now go to your priest and tell them the Bad Bad Science People are trying to tempt you with Satan's lies again. Or whatever your problem is.
Do you? Go watch this: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/... if you really think that's 2 hours of lies and bullshit and so-called 'libtards' and their 'liberal agenda' then you don't belong on slashdot or in any science or technology-based career, go to seminary and become a goddamned priest.
Go watch this: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/... then go ahead and tell us all about how global climate change and the human role in it is just bullshit. Rhetorical on my part of course you Dominionist types are practically begging for the End Of The World anyway, and anything you can do to hurry that along is all to the good so far as you're concerned.
Yeah sure because every gods-be-damned thing has to be about DEMOCRATS and REPUBLICANS and nothing else matters. Who cares about anything that's going to happen 100 years from now? Only what happens the next election, or the next fiscal year, or the next gods-be-damned news cycle has any relevance whatsoever to anyone anywhere.
Go see your optometrist, myopian; apparently your prescription is so out-of-date that you can't see past your own nose anymore.
You can add me to this, FUCK YOU VISIO, I'll never buy one of your gods-be-damned TVs if you're going to be like this.
Of course I don't have and don't want a so-called 'smart TV' in the first place and I know I'm not alone in that.
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Are you really this blind? Corporations themselves couldn't have POSSIBLY had anything to do with it, without 'colluding' with him? What a bunch of bullshit.
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Not through any extensive global effort but rather via new technology and pure self-interest.
Sure. But too many people don't want to embrace any new technologies, they want to keep burning fossil fuels, and they want them to be cheap, even if it takes subsidies to do it. Basically people in general pay lip service to climate change and environmental concerns in general but when comes down to doing something about it nobody wants to be inconvenienced in any way shape or form so nothing gets done. You can sit there and say "oh, well, it's never happened in the past and I really don't think it'll happen in the future it's all Gloom and Doom and you're all just spreading FUD" but hear this: what the entire goddamned science community is saying only has to be right ONCE for us to be PERMANENTLY FUCKED. You can call that "gloom and doom" and FUD all you want but you cannot refute my logic: It can fail to happen infinite times, but it only has to be correct ONCE. You really want to risk everything getting fucked permanently just so you can keep driving a gasoline-powered car and having cheap electricity from coal-burning power plants, and all the other polluting shit we do that's old and cheap right now? If you say 'yes' then consider yourself punched in the face because people that say 'yes' to the above have outlived my patience with them.
To be clear: I don't totally agree with everything she says. In this particular case, she sounds like she's going to start talking about so-called 'UBI' -- which I don't believe is a good idea in any way, shape, or form. People who have the motivation to work taken away from them just plain won't work at all, in spite of what UBI proponents claim about people 'finding their purpose', or 'being creative', or stuff like that: most people will just fritter away their lives and do essentially nothing of value for it. Meanwhile, go right ahead and try taking away the trillions that The Rich have accumulated, and see how far you get with that idea. If there was ever anything that would start Civil War 2, that's near the top of the list. You think The Rich won't fight back? Hell yes, they'll fight tooth and nail to keep their money and their power, and they'll buy armies and topple governments to keep what's theirs. You think the world is fucked right now? It's playtime compared to what the world would be like once The Rich are threatened and go on the attack with their trillions.
What we really need is a way to make all that money worthless that's been accumulated by The Rich, nullifying their power along with it. Your best guess as to how to accomplish that.
Put your glasses on, your severe myopia flaring up again. Also go call your sponsor and get your ass to an AA meeting.
Because maybe, just maybe, we can manage to evolve past this selfish baby-stage, where we just exploit the crap out of everything and everyone around us, destroying everything in our wake, and actually survive, as a species, to the point where we're actually enlightened? You know, not cause our own extinction-level event? At least long enough to GTFO of this planet and have a permanent presence elsewhere? Seriously, if all we're going to do is just fuck ourselves over and die off as a species anyway then we may as well just push the gods-be-damned Big Red Button and launch all the missiles now and get it over with.
STFU jackass. Take a look above; is my name 'Average Person'? No? Then We're not talking about me are we? STFU.
Is this Venture Capitalist clickbait? Are they just trolling for research grant money? Sheesh. I've got a vivid imagination and love science fiction, but this is so far out from anything even remotely practical that I don't know what else to think. Trying to create Warp Drive would be more practical.
So your plan is "fuck the future, I'll be dead, it's someone else's problem, so long as I can buy hookers and booze while I'm alive"?
If you actually believe money needs to be the primary concern here then I invite you to shoot yourself in your stupid head right now.
Myopic ass.
You're full of shit. We are contributing to it. Watch the goddamned video.
Yeah sure let's have the Average Person wade through tons of whitepapers that they won't have a clue how to understand or interpret so they throw up their hands and just forget all about it, I'm sure that serves your agenda very well.
I see the Republicans and science-hating religious types have mod points to spend today and have vandalized my comment: https://slashdot.org/comments.... screw you people politicizing everything. Disagreeing with me doesn't make me a troll it makes me INCONVENIENT TO YOU and that's all.
hurr durr triggered
You're impessing me less and less. Get lost.
See: https://slashdot.org/comments.... :-)
Don't assume that 'climate change believers' and 'anti-nuclear power' always go together.
I'm a registered Democrat (only recent; was Independent) and I'm an advocate of nuclear power. We can make it safer and it solves the majority of our problems in one fell swoop. Now if we can convince everyone else...
Bite me, myopian. Now go to your priest and tell them the Bad Bad Science People are trying to tempt you with Satan's lies again. Or whatever your problem is.
Just burn Facebook to the ground and never rebuild it. Problem solved!
Delete your Facebook account TODAY. Take your privacy back!
Do you? Go watch this: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/... if you really think that's 2 hours of lies and bullshit and so-called 'libtards' and their 'liberal agenda' then you don't belong on slashdot or in any science or technology-based career, go to seminary and become a goddamned priest.
Go watch this: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/... then go ahead and tell us all about how global climate change and the human role in it is just bullshit. Rhetorical on my part of course you Dominionist types are practically begging for the End Of The World anyway, and anything you can do to hurry that along is all to the good so far as you're concerned.
Yeah sure because every gods-be-damned thing has to be about DEMOCRATS and REPUBLICANS and nothing else matters. Who cares about anything that's going to happen 100 years from now? Only what happens the next election, or the next fiscal year, or the next gods-be-damned news cycle has any relevance whatsoever to anyone anywhere.
Go see your optometrist, myopian; apparently your prescription is so out-of-date that you can't see past your own nose anymore.
You can add me to this, FUCK YOU VISIO, I'll never buy one of your gods-be-damned TVs if you're going to be like this.
Of course I don't have and don't want a so-called 'smart TV' in the first place and I know I'm not alone in that.
It won't last, but enjoy it while you can!
Are you really this blind? Corporations themselves couldn't have POSSIBLY had anything to do with it, without 'colluding' with him? What a bunch of bullshit.
Fuck you asshole. You can't just blithely devalue what I said because you don't like it.
Sure glad I'm using Ubuntu. :-)