What is the 'Metacrisis' and How Do We Solve It? (AMA). Rewatch the live AMA conversation with Layman Pascal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyq_ZfdtTmgecology
Everyone is a fisherman, just nobody knows anything about fish...
It's funny how many people claim to be fishermen especially with social media these days all you have to do is take a couple pictures with some fish more often than most people in boom you're considered basically unsponsored professional fisherman and sometimes sponsored.... Biblomancy for February . “It was one of those February days when the sun shines and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade.”
— Great ExpectationsSeasons demonstrate how the planet is telling us that it is, in and of itself, alive. It tells us this in the same way as every plant & animal occupying it.... When it comes "the global warming debate," there are often third ways that are ignored. Often the framing is
global warming
andclimate deniers
or something like that.but it seems like there are obviously multiple perspectives here, and these two black and white boxes keep us from really seeing potential solutions.
Bjorn Lomborg for example believes in man-made climate change, but also doesn’t like the alarmism. Although he cherry picks data like he accuses others of, he also I think rightfully points out lots of flaws in the arguments that help us identify solutions. Much of the hurricane damage increase over time is because we’re building bigger and more expensive houses in hurricane alleys; for this problem, we can stop building there; everybody stopping flying altogether until 2100 delays increases the increase by a few weeks, so stopping flying isn’t the solution. Often the solutions are smaller, more local, less sexy: want less polar bears to die? Increase regulation on poaching. (Polar bear populations are up over the past decade because of this, apparently). I would love to identify and popularize these solutions, so they are spoken in the same breath as
global warming
rather than it being all gloom and doom and end of the world.There are real tricky questions about what we’re trying to preserve and for whom, as well. If all we care about are humans and climate migration, then building infrastructure in places like Haiti and even evolving to coal power would be more helpful.
Love the "this" as it seems the dominating narratives are very far from this very encompassing list. What does this list "this" actually translate to? Can I speak/type without the rage trickling or dominating the energy of the ideas.... What do you think are the biggest planetary potentials? I want to think of it in a bunch of ways, but one is through the lens of things we want to improve, eg:
1) What are the biggest problems/threats/embarrassments? and another is
2) What are the greatest potentials? I'll post some examples in the comments
I don’t understand why we can’t get health and ecology into alignment. It seems like there’s a ton of room to figure out how to best make food that’s good for us that can feed everybody that makes the soil healthy....