I've made peace with the fact that a portion of humanity is always convinced the world will end soon.<p>I guess it serves some evolutionary purpose, since it's so deeply ingrained.<p>We've done quite well with these people among us so far, despite them always, since the dawn of humanity, being wrong.
To anyone feeling anxious about the future after reading this article:<p>We have the technology to pause the worst effects of climate change indefinitely for a few billion dollars a year: <a href="https://news.uchicago.edu/radical-solution-address-climate-change-david-keith" rel="nofollow">https://news.uchicago.edu/radical-solution-address-climate-c...</a><p>It’s far from a complete solution, but it works well enough that the future described in the article is much more a dark fantasy than a likely reality.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't think that apocalypse porn helps the situation. I don't feel a need to see that new Civil War movie.
As logical as it is, I think advocacy of “degrowth” is a sure formula to put the far right in the driver’s seat and anyone who is seriously concerned about survival as forming another ingroup-outgrouo thing needs and answer to that.
On the contrary, the next generation could be the first to experience sustainable prosperity.<p><a href="https://www.nottheendoftheworld.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nottheendoftheworld.co.uk/</a><p>Hannah Ritchie's book.
Ugo Bardi wrote a great book on this. Before the Collapse - A Guide to the Other Side of Growth. See <a href="https://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/coll.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/coll.pdf</a>
Second coming, rapture etc are not unique to religious nutcases. It appears to be a mental disease that afflicts the atheist PhDs and others alike.<p>Over the last 100 years, average temperature (of whatever use this metric is) has gone up 1.5 deg C. Meanwhile life on this planet has flourished. Planet’s green cover has increased. Humans are better off on pretty much every metric.
For those interested in the topic, look into Deep Adaptation
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Adaptation" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Adaptation</a>
Sundays on HN are a weird thing. It’s the only day of the week when I see the nutty anti-car takes, de-growth takes, climate doomerism, etc. Monday through Saturday, tech news (mostly). Sunday, unhinged nutballism.
"degrowth" is one of those things you don't actually need to believe in, the world will do it for us if we don't do it first. I just want to minimize the collateral damage.
If folks refuse, so be it, I did my ethical duty in making sure they were well informed.