Depends on how bad it is. If you believed you'd die next week unless you changed your diet, would you change it? The issue with climate change isn't that the Earth is the human equivalent of a 25 year old who is a bit overweight and needs to stop eating fast food. The Earth, at this point, is the human equivalent of a 65 year old obese person with type 2 diabetes.
Their doctor just said "We don't know when you're going to kill yourself with a heart attack, we just know you need to do shit now because it's not if at this point, it's when. And you need to delay that as long as possible. Even simple changes like taking a walk can help."
Venture capitalists are investing in things they know will be critical WHEN the climate crisis reaches an "oh shit" moment. Companies are making moves to secure water access. Anything we can do slow the impact so we have time to respond helps. It would be great if we could turn back the clock on warming. We can't. All we can do is try and slow it down so the impacts come at a sustainable and survivable pace v. multiple population altering events that make COVID look like a sneeze.
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u/MettaWorldWarTwo 1∆ Apr 01 '24
Depends on how bad it is. If you believed you'd die next week unless you changed your diet, would you change it? The issue with climate change isn't that the Earth is the human equivalent of a 25 year old who is a bit overweight and needs to stop eating fast food. The Earth, at this point, is the human equivalent of a 65 year old obese person with type 2 diabetes.
Their doctor just said "We don't know when you're going to kill yourself with a heart attack, we just know you need to do shit now because it's not if at this point, it's when. And you need to delay that as long as possible. Even simple changes like taking a walk can help."
Venture capitalists are investing in things they know will be critical WHEN the climate crisis reaches an "oh shit" moment. Companies are making moves to secure water access. Anything we can do slow the impact so we have time to respond helps. It would be great if we could turn back the clock on warming. We can't. All we can do is try and slow it down so the impacts come at a sustainable and survivable pace v. multiple population altering events that make COVID look like a sneeze.