GLOBAL EXTINCTION WITHIN ONE HUMAN LIFETIME?

[NoOneMan]

93. BTW, sadly...

If you post something like "Carbon Pollution Up to 2 Million Pounds a Second" people hardly respond. Clearly there is little concern to some scientific measurement (but here, you can see a large response to this extrapolation of a scientific phenomena).

Hell, even if you post Billions could go hungry from global warming by 2100 people generally don't care because 1) thats a long time away (discount factor) and 2) they aren't part of those billions in their minds.

Frankly, its only by saying "YOU will die" (implied in 'extinction') does anyone really, really get riled up, if even to deny it based on their own misconception of their immortality--they will live on as a consciousness in a smart phone after all. I mean, we are supposed to have Star-Trek biodomes in 30 years that will forever save us; technology will always provide (technology and development that depends on the release of more atmospheric carbon, mind you).

So really, I am starting to see somewhat of a dichotomy forming here between "alarmists" (those who see the data and entertain all possibilities including the worse case scenarios) and people who simply shut it out, except when their ego's demand that they shout down alarmists. Maybe at those times a crack will show in their techno-ego.

Or maybe it just doesn't fucking matter anyway. In that case, I can say all the absurd shit I want and build a cool cult while billions of people die with their fingers in their ears singing "neeener neeener, I can't hear you doomer".

The bottom line fact is the worse possible crisis that people will experience is underway, and whatever language that is useful for waking them up and having them entertain the most extreme response to it is fair game.

Right now, both our acknowledgement/awareness of the magnitude of this event is lackluster and our response is essentially non-existent.

Off topic, regarding awareness, someone at DU recently told me that not even our children's children's children would see a world with atmospheric CO2 at 400 ppm.