i've said this before. I talked to an actual climate scientist on /r/chapotraphouse and they were far less doomer about climate change than people here.
If you don't mind, do you recall what they said? I mostly see climate experts and headlines calling for doom, so I'm surprised that someone in the field is more optimistic than the laymen amongst us
It's more the ecologists who are super depressed, the climate scientists deal with the abstract rather than the concrete and that gives them a bit of mental space. Which is both a good and a bad thing.
Humankind might well adapt, and even reverse the worst of the changes, the biosphere certainly will recover in 1000=10000 years regardless, but the actual material wetlands you've spent 40 years trying to save, or that village in the Bay of Bengal won't.
i've said this before. I talked to an actual climate scientist on /r/chapotraphouse and they were far less doomer about climate change than people here.
If you don't mind, do you recall what they said? I mostly see climate experts and headlines calling for doom, so I'm surprised that someone in the field is more optimistic than the laymen amongst us
I said that they must be depressed being in that field and they said not really and that human kind will adapt.
It's more the ecologists who are super depressed, the climate scientists deal with the abstract rather than the concrete and that gives them a bit of mental space. Which is both a good and a bad thing.
Humankind might well adapt, and even reverse the worst of the changes, the biosphere certainly will recover in 1000=10000 years regardless, but the actual material wetlands you've spent 40 years trying to save, or that village in the Bay of Bengal won't.
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I think this is the take. It’s not that humanity will die out. It’s the tragedy of the human and natural cost of it all.