I feel like acknowledging climate change on Hacker News can produce similar reactions :)
I stand by literally everything I said, and would add that I expect another event, let's say half an order of magnitude more horrific, within five years.
Due to the nature of what chaos is, there's no telling where and when: could even come out of seemingly nowhere. But it's latent in what the situation is, and is the expression of what chaos means. And when the global system was that few degrees cooler, the upcoming event (or Otis) could not have happened.
Oh, I’m not arguing the urgency. I just think it’s important to remember that other people aren’t perfect manifestations of our ideals, either: they get scared, they have other problems taking up their attention, etc. It does mean we should all be pushing back against the rise of the right-wing stochastic terrorism which has been disturbingly normalized lately.
I stand by literally everything I said, and would add that I expect another event, let's say half an order of magnitude more horrific, within five years.
Due to the nature of what chaos is, there's no telling where and when: could even come out of seemingly nowhere. But it's latent in what the situation is, and is the expression of what chaos means. And when the global system was that few degrees cooler, the upcoming event (or Otis) could not have happened.