(April 26, 2025 at 5:01 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I do think that future people will be better positioned to resolve issues (assuming we don't fall off a demographic cliff and so lack the labor required to support replacement cycles)..in the same way that we are compared to even the recent past...and in the same way that all throughout history the solution to mans previous problems has become obvious and trivial across so many fronts.
Similar to my response to Ivan, we'd find that the reason this set of circumstances is in effect is not because human beings are generally shitty...but that a vanishing fraction of a fraction of us definitely are shitty in specific ways. This is actually something were my opinion and yours probably mesh. Because we're not all monsters, we have trouble anticipating monstrous individuals, or responding to them in kind. Why are we not literally eating the rich right now, eh?
Climate change is different from other problems in that we have to anticipate it to deal with it effectively. We can't wait until it is all too obvious because by then natural feedback will have kicked in, making it impossible for humans to stop. That's what the 1.5C to 2.0C goals were supposed to be about.
So perhaps my biggest problem with humanity is why, no matter how well-intentioned we are, we so often have to learn the hard way.
