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shubhamjain 21 hours ago

It’s surreal how quickly this went from being the most important problem in the world to barely being on anyone’s mind, all in less than a decade. I had plenty of problems with the fear-mongering and doomed-by-2030 predictions, but the current situation, where we seem basically fine with doing nothing, is genuinely scary. Technology has its limits, billions of people still aspire to a European standard of living, and global population isn’t expected to peak until near the end of this century.

I just hate this post-Trump, post-Covid, post-Russia-Ukraine-war world. I don’t know what the trigger was, but there must have been a point where things just went to shit. And here we are: an increasingly ultra-capitalistic dystopia where wealth seems to be the only thing that matters.

sajithdilshan 21 hours ago | parent [-]

Because it’s truly a first world problem. Rest of the world has other problems like hunger, clean drinking water and other basic necessities to solve

dfdydx 21 hours ago | parent [-]

Aren't those "other problems" somewhat affected by climate change though?

sajithdilshan 21 hours ago | parent [-]

All those problems were already there even before climate change was a topic, so nothing new regarding that front

dfdydx 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'd wager they're not binary (absent/present) issues but have many dimensions and a continuum of possible values and thus "climate change makes this problem worse or different" is something new. Random example: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-024-00583-8

rendaw 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think GP was claiming they weren't.