derhundistlos wrote:Yes, Newfie, you are right, except I could not allow Kaiser's, at minimum, disingenuous comment to go uncorrected. I did not broach the subject. I merely responded.
That being said, whether people like it or not, politics is right in the center of climate change and mitigation. Our ability to mitigate climate change as well as numerous other equally disturbing ecological catastrophes like the Mass Extinction Emergency depends upon leadership along with the timing and extent to which we respond. We now have a president who categorically denies the existence of climate change, which means we are kicking the can further down the road.
But the breach has questioned the ability of the vault to survive as a lifeline for humanity if catastrophe strikes. “It was supposed to [operate] without the help of humans, but now we are watching the seed vault 24 hours a day,” Aschim said. “We must see what we can do to minimise all the risks and make sure the seed bank can take care of itself.”
dohboi wrote:Thanks for all of your service!
Here's a study that some might find interesting and/or discomfitting:
The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe
Plagues, revolutions, massive wars, collapsed states—these are what reliably reduce economic disparities
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/ar ... ce/517164/
"Throughout history, only massive, violent shocks that upended the established order proved powerful enough to flatten disparities in income and wealth. They appeared in four different guises: mass-mobilization warfare, violent and transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic epidemics."
dohboi wrote:These do not seem to be the 'revolutions' the article was talking about.
And generally they made the already rich much richer.
When major hydro dams go in to third world countries, they generally have the same effect. Most of the benefit goes to those already doing well. The powerful always look for ways to enhance their own power. Technology almost always just abets that process.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
dohboi wrote:These do not seem to be the 'revolutions' the article was talking about.
And generally they made the already rich much richer.
jedrider wrote:Nothing to worry about: Life is improving all the time! The money supply is increasing all the time!
Crashes don't happen anymore. The climate crash has been banished by the Trump administration - we only need to go out to 2050 for our climate models now, by Presidential decree.
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