Re Should We Chill out About Global Warming?

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Chris Beck <cbeck () pacanukeha net>
> Date: March 8, 2018 at 9:52:54 PM EST
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Should We Chill out About Global Warming?
>
> "How bad will climate change be? Not very. <snip> Cataclysmic—but not apocalyptic.
>
> Good to know that we only need to worry about a cataclysm! I feel better already. And the ones who will suffer most 
> are already living pretty crappy lives anyway...but luckily only half a million a year will starve to death. We leave 
> as an exercise for the reader the calculation of how many will die in the First South Asian when it becomes clear 
> that Bangladesh is no longer habitable and the residents of the Padma River watershed spill west into Bengal and the 
> flooded city of Kolkata and east into Myanmar:
> http://www.floodmap.net/?ll=23.987621,91.74805&z=6&e=8  (2100, assuming Greenland and the known risky Antarctic 
> glaciers go)
>
> Let's not pretend that there will ever be any votes in Washington or Strasbourg or Beijing to build dykes along that 
> coast that can survive the annual bombardment of Category 5 cyclones.
>
> So yeah.  We'll develop technology to mitigate the pain. But only some and the suffering will not be equitably shared 
> - those of us(myself included obviously) in the decadent west whose consumption drove the beginning of this and 
> inspired countless imitators, well we'll be the inventors and primary benefactors of the majority of technical 
> solutions and the primary sufferers will be the masses who contributed very little CO2.
>
> Meh.  Optimism is necessary but I think we need a healthy dose some other emotions to ensure we share the wealth.  
> And maybe, just maybe, we deserve to take a bit of a hit to our lifestyles, it's not like we can't afford it.
>
> Cheers, (heh)
> Chris
>
> > On 8 March 2018 at 16:35, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu>
> > > Date: March 8, 2018 at 3:28:18 PM EST
> > > To: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com>
> > > Cc: John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu>
> > > Subject: Should We Chill out About Global Warming?
> > >
> > > Dave, I thought your list might find this column interesting. Cheers, John
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Should We Chill Out about Global Warming?
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > > Two “ecomodernists” argue that continued progress in science and other realms will help us overcome environmental 
> > > problems.
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > > I work hard to maintain my optimistic outlook. Wishful thinking works. The first step toward building a more 
> > > healthy, peaceful, just world is to believe we can do it. So how do I deal with all the bad news about climate 
> > > change? U.S. officials are rolling back regulations designed to curb global warming even as reports flood in about 
> > > its scale and potential consequences.
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > > I have thus found solace in two new essays that offer upbeat takes on our environmental future. Both reflect the 
> > > outlook of ecomodernism, a movement I have written about here and here. One essay, published in the ecomodernist 
> > > Breakthrough Journal, is by mega-pundit Steven Pinker. I have knocked Pinker for his views on the roots of war and 
> > > other matters, but in general I appreciate his empirically-based optimism....
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Continue reading at https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/should-we-chill-out-about-global-warming/​]
> >
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> [Christopher Beck] [+ChrisBeck]
> a) You don't get good government from people who think government is the problem.
> b) Silence is as much a political statement as speech.
> c) The more rules and regulations, the more thieves and robbers. - 老子 (Lao-Tzu) 
> d) Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit - Cicero
> e) السلام عليكم - Traditional



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