HN Explorer

4 comments

[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 22.0 ms ] thread
sattoshi
I have a fair amount of skepticism about climate change, but I have to wonder: if things were going to be dire in 10 years, wouldn’t the practical thing to do be to sound the alarm saying that we have 2 years or we all die? How can you make people take it seriously before its too late?
mutant_glofish
> if things were going to be dire in 10 years, wouldn’t the practical thing to do be to sound the alarm saying that we have 2 years or we all die?

Not really, because after two years pass and we don't all die, you will have a hard time trying to get people to trust you again afterwards.

sattoshi
If you were going to “wait and see” anyways, then it wouldn’t have mattered.