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  • Herring57 minutes ago
    Humanity being the first species to go extinct because it was more profitable than continued existence.
    • wwweston46 minutes ago
      Not so much profit as a particular failure of accounting. Focus on privatization of profit with socialization of costs allows making staggering and possibly fatal costs someone else’s problem.
    • BLKNSLVR36 minutes ago
      Remind me of the fantastic line:<p>&quot;The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment&quot;
      • Herring9 minutes ago
        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;cartoon&#x2F;a16995" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;cartoon&#x2F;a16995</a>
    • phtrivier41 minutes ago
      Let&#x27;s emulate world class leadership from the greatest country on earth, and immediately stop funding those alarmists doomsayers.<p>Anyway, I read on HN that AI was about to solve climate change any time now. I&#x27;m sure prompting LLMs the right way will harness the world knowledge to generatively hallucinate a way for trees to grow better.
      • BLKNSLVR37 minutes ago
        I think Elon is working towards colonizing Mars because once it&#x27;s all worked out, that&#x27;s what Earth&#x27;s environment will be like.
        • kibwen29 minutes ago
          Nope, it&#x27;s Venus that we&#x27;re racing towards.
    • PaulHoule46 minutes ago
      See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;screenrant.com&#x2F;far-side-gary-larson-dinosaur-extinction-smoking-kills&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;screenrant.com&#x2F;far-side-gary-larson-dinosaur-extinct...</a>
  • dr_dshiv1 hour ago
    Happened in Finland too— forests becoming net carbon producers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.icos-cp.eu&#x2F;news-and-events&#x2F;news&#x2F;finlands-forests-have-become-source-carbon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.icos-cp.eu&#x2F;news-and-events&#x2F;news&#x2F;finlands-forests...</a>
    • jabl43 minutes ago
      Notably, politically the notion of forests as carbon sinks have been a very convenient fig leaf for politicians not wanting to reduce emissions in other parts of society.
    • lmc1 hour ago
      And Austria<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.derstandard.at&#x2F;story&#x2F;3000000268965&#x2F;vom-retter-zum-risiko-oesterreichs-wald-wird-fuers-klima-zum-problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.derstandard.at&#x2F;story&#x2F;3000000268965&#x2F;vom-retter-zu...</a>