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Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social |
Think of climate change like a high speed train heading for a wall. There’s a huge difference between hitting the wall at full speed and slowing the train down as much as possible before you get there. There’s no such thing as “totally doomed” - we CAN slow down the train!
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City Atlas
@cityatlas.bsky.social
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The first 10 minutes of this documentary on the French citizens' assembly are inspiring. (Watched with the auto-translate captions under the gear knob.)
youtu.be/d87ebaDlq7M?...
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Courtney Milan
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It's also really thick wall that gets harder the further the train gets into it! Stopping the train partway into the wall is a better outcome!
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Matt Walker
@mattwalker.bsky.social
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This is a very good analogy.
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K____ B: new gender who dis
@wowcoolrobot.bsky.social
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even if it just means slowing down the... impact so it's 100 or 200 years later, that's a LOT of time. not for scientific discoveries to miraculously save us, but for things like huge carbon capture tree planting and log sinking projects
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Stephen Webb
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And to continue but torture the metaphor a bit, the more we slow down now, the more effective future brake technology is to slow us down further
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Ersatz Haderach
@striderhlc.bsky.social
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Yes- it’s important to remember that shaving even tenths of a degree off global warming will save millions of lives.
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John Smillie
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Nah, because the train thing happens all at once. It's more like being pelted with more and larger rocks each passing year, starting decades ago. And the rocks are of somewhat random size and you can't always predict when your rock shields will give out in a certain direction (non linear impacts).
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Nat is in the desert
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It's just a bummer that the people driving the train seem to be of the "yeah, we need to hit the brakes, but doing it TOO hard will mess up the train's economy" school. Not to mention a few saying "I'm not listening to your wall hoax!"
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Niall Martin
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Well put.
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