BREAKING: simultaneous freakish heat in the Arctic and Antarctic described as 'impossible' and 'unthinkable' by scientists as abrupt climate change accelerates wildly 🧵 pic.twitter.com/jGwovCRLeT— Ben See (@ClimateBen) March 19, 2022
heck of a question here's two annoying possible answers: (1) people in Anglo countries already do notice but they are either actually helpless or are in learned helplessness. (2) people might still think everything's normal when they're living in nuclear-air-conditioned hives and everyone in Bangladesh has drowned. Humans are adaptable
and very good at denial.
Things in the global north might get so hairy that things fall apart entirely (and, again, from a historical perspective it looks a lot like this is already happening) or people might take an incredible hit to their material conditions if the alternative is dying like in the global south, i dunno. looks bad
heck of a question here's two annoying possible answers: (1) people in Anglo countries already do notice but they are either actually helpless or are in learned helplessness. (2) people might still think everything's normal when they're living in nuclear-air-conditioned hives and everyone in Bangladesh has drowned. Humans are adaptable and very good at denial.
Things in the global north might get so hairy that things fall apart entirely (and, again, from a historical perspective it looks a lot like this is already happening) or people might take an incredible hit to their material conditions if the alternative is dying like in the global south, i dunno. looks bad