Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by polotics 1782 days ago
Why do you think consensus will never be reached? In the face of mounting evidence it seems to me the move of short-term focussed actors from a denial to a delay strategy is well underway. This demonstrates strong consensus on the fact our climate is dangerously drifting I think. Investing in military is only as good as your ability to keep a civilian society able to feed that military. At one point all you got yourself is one more mercenary tribe...
1 comments

By consensus I mean an actionable agreement that propagates beyond your household's kitchen.

Globally, climate might be drifting but consensus on what needs to be done will never be reached. Small gang of seemingly nervous Europeans (even if US is forced to join) will never be able to tell China what to do (or how) with their resources.

While were are tearing ourselves up with fearmongering, China can build an underwater supersonic bullet train in like 2 months if they have to for what they care.