[Nekhrimah]

> We very much do "look up" and have been for decades.

In case you didn't pick it up, Don't Look Up is a callout to a recent movie [1]. I imagine that in this context it's more of a comment on the appetite of the population at large to undergo the temporary inconvenience of proactively taking the power-grid, and thus the vulnerable transformers, offline prior to the arrival of the event. We know the scientists will be looking up; it's the convincing of the population at large via a capitalist captured media that's the hard part.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up

[dgroshev]

I am very much aware of the reference. I'm also aware that it's just a movie with a barely concealed and really trivialising climate change allegory. In reality we're just out of a pandemic that showed governments around the globe stopping people's daily life for months by decree without much problem. Switching electricity off for a few days is nothing.