[pjtn8]

A sudden mass causality event triggered 9/11 responses, pandemic response.

A heat related mass death event most likely would trigger a response. The real question is would it be organized and tidy response, or civil unrest?

When 4% hunt anymore and no one can grow a carrot? Suddenly logistics are interrupted worse than covid because, what, Phoenix burns down?

Oh, it’ll trigger a response.

[RetroTechie]

It's a bit different than 9/11 though. Climate change is like a fully loaded supertanker. You can hit an emergency break all you want, but still that ship will have a 5..10km (or longer?) breaking distance.

So if a mass death event were to occur, and policy were to change course drastically, the changed climate would continue to pound our biosphere for many decades (if not centuries). Or hit tipping points and get worse & worse no matter what we do.

To put it blunt: at some point, prolonged mass suffering & death is practically guaranteed. Just with a decades-delayed fuse. That fuse is already lit, while we can't see (with any certainty, that is) how big a powder keg it goes into.

[alangibson]

You sighted two totally ineffective responses to crises. We'll do something, it just won't be what is required to actually fix the underlying problem.

[pjtn8]

You sighted a problem and cited zero anything else.

Pandemic response was effective at avoiding healthcare system collapse and churning out a vaccine. It’s as good a plan as we can get with 30% of 300 million intentionally indifferent, centrists too absorbed in low effort consumerism, and anyone espousing concern being called a tree hugging pussy.

What else do you want? Too many seem to think the MCU should hop on saving them from themselves.

Say something useful yourself or get over it. You were never going to make it out of this life alive anyway.

[alangibson]

> You sighted a problem and cited zero anything else.

Perhaps you missed the analogy in my original between climate deaths and gun+traffic deaths.

> It’s as good a plan as we can get with 30% of 300 million intentionally indifferent, centrists too absorbed in low effort consumerism, and anyone espousing concern being called a tree hugging pussy.

You're so close to getting it. We will be talking about "sensible solutions" that maintain our current lifestyle until the planet turns into Venus.

> What else do you want?

I reluctanty have to admit I'm black pilled at this point. I see no reason to believe that our species is capable of the kind of collective action that's needed. There are no positive examples and so many negative examples.

> You were never going to make it out of this life alive anyway.

You don't have kids do you?

[pjtn8]

I do have kids. Which is why your post bugs me.

My whole effort here is throwing your low effort back at you; including your misuse of sighted for cited.

Frankly I think I get you a lot better than you get me. You are your own generalization/analogy/metaphor.

You’re doing nothing substantive while complaining about lack of substantive effort in the part of others.

Functional illiteracy in the raw, dog

[alangibson]

See my comment about being blackpilled on this issue. I don't think humans have what it takes to deal with this.

> Functional illiteracy in the raw, dog

Not your dog, dog