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questions about climate change (beehaw.org)
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this is usually an interesting discussion to have, and there are a lot of interesting questions to ask in this field--so let's ask and talk about a few. feel free to answer as many as you want, or ask your own of people in the comments. here are two groups of three that i think are good to start:

  • Do you suffer from anxiety about climate change and its effects?
  • Have you ever made significant individual lifestyle choices because of climate change?
  • Have you ever thought of leaving where you live because of potential future climactic effects? Have you actually moved already because of them?
  • Do you think the world can limit global warming to 1.5C or 2C? Where do you think we'll "level off" in terms of warming--especially if you don't think we'll meet either of those goals?
  • What do you think of proposed technologies like carbon capture? Do you think they're useful, or a technocratic waste of time? Can they be viably used at large scale on any reasonable timeframe?
  • Do you support something like climate reparations either now or in the future? Do you think such a thing is even viable?
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[–] landsharkgun@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

1 - Not really. I'm past that point, into the 'acceptance' part. 2 - Went vegetarian just before Covid hit. Don't own a car since last summer - mostly because I'm lucky enough to have a route to my work. Never going back to car dependency, public transit is very nice. Eyeing my gaming rig next, but it'd be a major change for me. 3 - I'm in the American Midwest, so besides moving a bit further north, nah not really. 4 - Hell no. World leaders couldn't figure out how to not kill their own people during a pandemic. The number of leaders actively shouting that nothing was wrong during Covid is something that I'll never forget. We'll get there when we get there, and not a milli-degree sooner. 5 - Technology is only as useful as the social will to use it. We could knock climate change dead tomorrow by junking all the cars and building a bunch of streetcars - something invented in the late 1800s. Could fancy schmancy carbon capture be useful? Sure. Will it? Enh. 6 - We'll be incredibly damn lucky if the well-off countries don't literally start shooting climate refugees. Would redistributing resources to provide for those less fortunate be a good idea? Sure. Try pushing that idea to anyone who's not already a leftist.