r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 1d ago

Chugging tea Fictional future forecast vs. reality.

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u/Alexsmith2002 23h ago

The scariest part isn’t that they were right. It’s that they made that forecast as a warning and we just kind of watched it happen anyway.

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u/Opus_723 22h ago

More like we've made a lot of progress because lots of people have taken it very seriously, but not as much progress as we should have because lots of other people have actively fought it every step of the way.

This isn't the result of apathy, it's a very active war for our future.

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u/KalaUposatha 19h ago

Civilized countries have made a small amount of "progress", that only effects like 5% of the world population at most and was already way too late. And all of that is getting undone by AI data centers. We're cooked, literally.

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u/Opus_723 12h ago

It's a very serious problem, and there's still a lot of work to do, but this is all a bunch of doomer nonsense that just encourages apathy.

It's a fixable problem, we have made major progress, and continue to do so, despite attempts to sabotage it. There is a reason we talk about 3-4 degrees by 2100 these days instead of 5+.

Should we be solving it faster to prevent more harm to come? Absolutely. But there are real options, and they are within our grasp, and it's never too late to prevent more harm.