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SergeantGander posted...

The clock just keeps getting reset. Which is why I think alot of people don't take it seriously.

Once you live through multiple doomsday predictions you start caring about them a lot less.

Exactly. If you want people to care, you can't just don a tinfoil had every few seconds. Scare tactics don't work.

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It's more a case of people thinking the world will end from every natural disaster or random event ever. Yosemite is gonna erupt, global warming will kill us in X years, stuff that is absolutely false won't get people to change.

DarkRoast posted...

I don't think people realize that the vast vast vast majority of pollution has occurred in the past 100 years. It's definitely an unsustainable trajectory.

Of course, but there is no amount of pollution that would drive us to extinction within 100 years unless we nuke the atmosphere with a super pollution bomb lol.

Being sarcastic, but we won't be able to affect anything quick enough to kill us as a species within the next 100 years. 1000? That is possible.

uwnim posted...

Yeah. Climate change will kill a couple billion, but not all of humanity.

Not anytime soon, but yes, it will. And we should worry about it and it's effect NOW.

ThyCorndog posted...

You can always tell who is scientifically illiterate by how they act to changing climate predictions. It shows that even the basics of the scientific method and how data emerges and is interpreted are poorly understood by the general public

It's not your fault tho. Education in these subjects are lacking, especially when it comes to critical thinking. And society as a whole is anti intellectual

You do realize I'm talking more or less about studies that end up getting sensationalized into being yet another doomsday clock, right? Then the flock of idiots who will run around saying the world is gonna end in the next 10 years or whatever?

Or are you just gonna keep acting like you're actually understanding of what the topic is about.