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by lispm
2637 days ago
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> Future cannot be researched, calculated or predicted Sure it can. Otherwise you wouldn't know about the effects of climate change. > You can just be worried about stuff and bet on some solutions to give your children a decent place to live in. Use a bicycle. Don't fly. Don't make vacation on a cruise ship. Don't buy flown in goods. Don't eat meat. Don't reproduce. Recycle stuff. Get solar onto your roof. Heat with electricity from non-fossil fuels. Don't use a car. |
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Well actually we don't know. We have maybe a sophisticated guess at best. Knowledge requires data, that by definition cannot be gathered from future. At least not before someone invents a time machine.
Even the best forecasts we can make about anything are very poor. Look at a simple things like construction budgets or projected congestion of particular traffic system upgrade. They are usually off by magnitude of order. And this is well documented by Kahnemann.
In regards of atmosphere, it might be that IPCC has overestimated the whole thing with a fat margin. Or it might be we are all dead no matter what we do.
>Don't reproduce.
If I don't do that, then I'm not going to give a shit about this phenomena anyhow.
>Heat with electricity from non-fossil fuels.
Where I'm from, that's impossible without the whole state going non-fossil fuel. Which again is practically impossible without nuclear.
Heating accounts probably about half of my carbon footprint. And with rough winters that's a lot. I've already minimized everything else.