• Tlaloc_Temporal
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        1010 months ago

        This is actually a thought that some climate deniers have. “Climate change is a hoax to control you, covid was the trial run”.

        Unsurprisingly, the people who say that publicly tend to be funded by oil.

        • @zerofk@lemm.ee
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          510 months ago

          Why doesn’t anyone ever think COVID was sent by God to give us a reprieve and a chance to get our act together, which we’re now squandering?

    • Dippy
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      610 months ago

      Whenever I think about this article, I think about how they could not have possibly known how emissions would grow, and they were perfectly reasonable to frame it this way. And if things stayed at that rate, we would have been able to do something about it so easily when we started getting worried

  • @Actionschnils@feddit.org
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    1310 months ago

    The German Federal Public Radio (Deutschland Funk) has a Radio Documentary Series, about particular historical Topics called “Der Rest ist Geschichte”. Mostly academic experts explain the topics from the academic view for “common” people. They made a interesting one about the History of the Knowledge about the climate crisis.

    Aus der Dlf App | Der Rest ist Geschichte | Klima und Krise – Seit wann wir von der Erderwärmung wissen https://share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothek-audio-teilen.html?mdm:audio_id=dira_DLF_15dd044f

    Afaik there is no English version :<

  • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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    5110 months ago

    It’s a good thing someone noticed this back then, and the world dumped the coal industry. Imagine how fucked we’d be now if this was completely ignored.

    • @kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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      At that level of co2 production, they were probably right about the timetable. What they couldn’t predict is that co2 production would rise so dramatically with automobiles and industry in the decades after that. They were at 7 billion tons a year then. We are over 36 billion tons a year now, over 5 times as much. That has clearly expedited the effects on the climate.

      • @EddyBot@discuss.tchncs.de
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        410 months ago

        What they couldn’t predict is that co2 production would rise so dramatically

        interestingly enough in the early 1900 there were more electric cars than ICEs in north america

  • @lenuup@reddthat.com
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    1910 months ago

    just could not imagine the scale at which human civilization would escalate. Apart from that, spot on.

    • @theneverfox@pawb.social
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      310 months ago

      That’s like 30 years after the concept was first understood. Even now the concept is downplayed so people don’t reject it outright

      And even today, almost no one truly understands the implications of exponential growth… I’d give them full marks

  • @eleitl@lemm.ee
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    3410 months ago

    To be fair, in 1912 it was not at all obvious at which scale humanity started to burn everything after 1950.

    • RQG
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      310 months ago

      They have already been canceled.

  • @frezik@midwest.social
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    2310 months ago

    That may end up being correct. The models predicting the most catastrophic effects are often showing that for 2100, which would be nearly 200 years from the publish date.

    • Scrubbles
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      710 months ago

      And my friends and family wonder why I’m not having kids. I’m sure eager to bring new life in right before one of the most cataclysmic events of humanity, that’s for sure.

  • @filcuk@lemmy.zip
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    310 months ago

    Why did they not print the whole of ‘Affecting’ on a new line, that’s bothering me