• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I’m brown and live in Europe and America, it’s going fine, a hell of a lot better than anywhere else, particularly the shithole that is CCP’s China.

    Taiwan is doing pretty well though.

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      11 days ago

      Austria is on the brink of going Hungary and the “progressive” coalition in Germany is gladly copying the far right’s homework.

      I also don’t like China’s governmet. Not sure why you bring it up.

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        11 days ago

        The far right keeps trying to take over, and keeps collapsing into its own incompetence immediately after.

        They know longer know how to rule and modern parliamentary systems make them much less able to govern.

        Germany will be a disaster, their economy is finished for at least a decade, but that’s … not terribly serious, they’ll re-form after a while, hopefully after we’ve fixed the EU.

        Yeah that latter one is a bit fantastic, but considering how much room there is for change right now we actually could have some things get better.

        Austria has been flirting with the far-right my whole life, the strain runs REALLY deep.

        If America goes Trump then things could get very dark, but otherwise I’m pretty sure we’ll manage to figure things out over the next decade, things are still vastly better in both Europe and America than anywhere else and while people don’t like it, they’ll be less happy with the alternatives.

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          11 days ago

          I’m sorry, but you’re deluding yourself if you don’t think that the gurrent system won’t collapse under climate change if we don’t have fundamental changes.

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            11 days ago

            Meh, I think we can adjust.

            I think most other systems would be worse, and the system itself is entirely irrelevant.

            The only thing that will save us is science, climate change probably doesn’t work the way you think it does, it’s complex and we have room to work if the assholes get off our backs.

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                11 days ago

                We went from learning from books to having access to the entire sum knowledge of humanity in my pocket instantly in my lifetime.

                Science is truly powerful, and I can say that because I’m literally arguing with you over it.

                Geoengineering is basic science, the only thing blocking us from doing it are all the morons who don’t understand how it works and believe “ONLY GAWD” is in charge of the weather, and the other group of morons who don’t understand how it works and thing we should all run back to live in caves.

                Read Malthus, we should never have made it this far.

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                    11 days ago

                    You have no idea about complex systems, climate and chaos theory. Geo-engineering is siake oil the destructive status quo is trying to sell us while the rich build post-apocalyptic bunkers on New Zealand.

                    Yes, it’s complicated, you know what else is a complex system? The human body. Better not ever take any medicine or anything really.

                    We predicted climate change, we can use the same techniques to stop it.

                    I like how geo-engineering is snake oil, while instead losing 3/4 of the population and having the rest live like cavemen is somehow the rational and safe choice.

                    We can’t sustain the current population on the planet, so either we figure out how to fix that problem, or we get rid of a lot of population, you’re welcome to volunteer.