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The fundamental stance of doomers as far as I have understood it is fundamentally Malthusianism - infinite growth cannot occur on a finite planet. The majority of people alive today are only able to eat because of synthetic fertilizers. Phosphates in particular are mined and are being lost to the ocean via soil erosion due to industrial farming practices. Freshwater is being depleted unsustainably all over the world. The EROI of oil is consistently declining. This post totally ignores the Hubbert curves that are fundamental to much of doomer thinking, and doomers only have to be right about one of them for there to be a massive population and living standards collapse.
This post also largely ignores that doomers acknowledge the mainstream climate models but believe they don't properly account for feedback loops such as the clatharate gun hypothesis. It is especially egregious that the IPCC numbers are cited, when so much of doomer discourse surrounds criticisms of the IPCC and its consensus-based methodology resulting in excessively cautious claims.
I have stopped being convinced we're doomed, but that's not because I think doomers are wrong, I just think we really might pull off the technological miracles required to kick the can down the road far enough not to worry about it. Better to look forward to space mining and virtually limitless energy than spend my days feeling angry we didn't do something sooner.
If you read Overshoot by William Catton (one of the most important doomer books), you know that there's nothing we really could have done. We will always grow into the size of container we have. So the best we can hope for is a galaxy sized container, and that's what I choose to do.
It is harder than it needs to be because the Taxon Identifiers at the bottom of the page of plant species is missing from the wikispeedruns rendering of the page. That box seems to pretty consistently link to APNI.
When I was being abused, I knew deep down that it wasn't right. All my friends told me so. But recognizing that abuse meant I had to change how I view myself and my experiences for months (if not years) before, and that's really hard. It's easier to live in a delusion that everything is okay.
If they are as depressed as you suggest, they probably don't have the energy to reframe their entire experience around the facts you are presenting to them, regardless of how believable those facts are.
You cannot 'save' your friend from their self-destructive behavior, and you should stop trying. Instead, do your best to acknowledge them and make it known that your friend can trust and rely on you. Hopefully, your friend will reach a point in their life where they have the energy to start working on becoming healthier, and you can be supportive of them then.
I suggest looking at this WikiHow article that deals with a similar issue: https://www.wikihow.com/Help-Someone-Who-You-Think-Is-Cuttin...
- KDE
- AMD's Radeon control panel
- VLC
- VirtualBox
Qt apps feel far more native than Electron apps in my opinion.
var WEB_CLIENT_SECRET = '<redacted>';
Doesn't this let anyone else make API calls as your app?This may be helpful: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2UserA...
The main risk of sharing your genes is genetic discrimination. It's irreversible to share your genes, so I'd ask yourself: if you were to find out you are a carrier of a genetic disorder, would that change your mind? If so, I wouldn't share your genes publically.
[1] http://genes.howderek.com/ [2] http://personalgenomes.org/
You can add your Personal Health Record to it.
I don't see how this could scale past cities where rent is insane and have housing regulations that allow this kind of home.
What is the advantage of this versus other pre-fabricated homes? What justifies the price?