| > Probably wouldn't have commented on this if you hadn't used past tense. Today all this seems obvious. But since you do, -let me tell you that most of us haven't heard a thing about global warming until "An inconvenient truth" or about that time. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in 1988 and would have been established a decade earlier had it not been for aerosol pollution having a countervailing effect on temperature. > Pretending oil engineers kept this under the rug is a bit disingenuous. I see HN as less of a place for the equivalent of oil engineers and more of a place for current and future leaders. > As for our role in shaping the surveillance state, -that is a bit worse: we now know. Luckily we are already seeing resistance and I urge everyone to join in: do talk about it at work, do talk to politicians, try to influence decisions where you work. I'm doing as much as I can[0] but realistically very few of us are really trying. [0] I've met with my MP, I spoke at an election hearing, I've sent countless emails to Public Safety Canada and other departments, I did a cybersecurity review of a department well below my normal bill rate. I even joined the Liberal Party. I'm getting somewhere (e.g., the 2018 budget dramatically increased funding for cybersecurity) but the problem is growing faster than the response. Just like global warming. |