Wednesday, August 23, 2023
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A pedantic comment on the climate change one: Five years was the deadline for stopping the use of fossil fuels, not when humanity would be wiped out by climate change; there was no indication of when the end of the world would happen. I'm not saying it wasn't alarmist, I'm just saying that circling the date on the tweet doesn't actually prove anything.
ReplyDelete(And, yes, I am aware that nitpicking memes is like trying to critique a raccoon's table manners, but I couldn't help myself.)
I get your critique (and do keep nitpicking if that floats your boat), but no matter when the world's end happens, the quote implies that five years is some kind of point of no return. I find that highly doubtful. We've heard the failed doomsaying prophecies for decades: Arctic ice that didn't disappear, island nations that were never submerged, radical temperature increases that never happened, polar bears that multiplied instead of going extinct, etc.
ReplyDeleteAnd to be clear, while I don't consider myself a "greenie," I'm convinced there's plenty of obvious damage that humans are doing to the environment. My favorite go-to examples have to do with rivers: plastic bottles clogging rivers (mostly in Asia) and manufacturing plants dumping chemicals in rivers (something RFK Jr. has been trying to fight). There's plenty of obvious work that needs to be done without resorting to wild-eyed prophesying. Or so I think. If you can't predict next week's weather, how do you go from that to boldly predicting climate trends? Stick to what you can see.