Is the world being destroyed?

How right is izzythepush? He's dead on!

We’ll have to take your word for it.

I’ve seen Farmerman correcting your bad physics, but I’ve not heard him say anything about Deleath.

Abstract

Losses from natural hazards are escalating dramatically, with more properties and critical infrastructure affected each year. Although the magnitude, intensity, and/or frequency of certain hazards has increased, development contributes to this unsustainable trend, as disasters emerge when natural disturbances meet vulnerable assets and populations. To diagnose development patterns leading to increased exposure in the conterminous United States (CONUS), we identified earthquake, flood, hurricane, tornado, and wildfire hazard hotspots, and overlaid them with land use information from the Historical Settlement Data Compilation data set. Our results show that 57% of structures (homes, schools, hospitals, office buildings, etc.) are located in hazard hotspots, which represent only a third of CONUS area, and ∼1.5 million buildings lie in hotspots for two or more hazards. These critical levels of exposure are the legacy of decades of sustained growth and point to our inability, lack of knowledge, or unwillingness to limit development in hazardous zones. Development in these areas is still growing more rapidly than the baseline rates for the nation, portending larger future losses even if the effects of climate change are not considered.

If you posting this to make the claim that we are headed for an apocalyptic world where all of us are doomed to a fiery death, then you are full of crap.

Go stomping off muttering about dishonesty if you like.... but you are still full of crap.

You are posting articles about living in bunkers. And if you read my response to Frank's little tantrum in context, I was showing restraint.

I don't see the point in living life terrified by what "might" happen.

We have a problem in climate change. We are part of a human race that spans the globe... the problem will involve working together, making compromises, finding technical solutions, making deals.

If you are part of this process, then great! If you are screaming about how we are all doomed, attacking Trump supporters, whining about corporations and any other pet political peeve, then you are going the wrong direction.

This thread isn't just about Climate Change. We have heard about health issues, plastics, dying insects, fires, water shortages, the end of pollination... a myriad of unrelated problems pushing a vision of doom and gloom.

There is no talk about the amazing progress we have made including...

1) A response to a global pandemic that has saved hundreds of millions of people and is unprecedented in history. A person was 20 times more likely to die of the 1918 pandemic than they are to die of this one. This is a combination of improved public health, more accessible hospitals, advances in medical science including a vaccine.

2) The amazing progress we have made in feeding a growing planet. We have slashed the number of humans that are dying of starvation... it has never been lower.

3) The amazing progress we have made a slashing extreme poverty. We have cut extreme poverty by more than a half in just the past few decades. This is truly amazing.

4) The amazing lack of war in the past 70 years. The number of people who have died from war in the past 70 years is historically low, to an astonishing amount.

This is a dire, gloomy philosophy that exaggerates problem and is terrified of human progress. That is the reason I am responding on this thread.

You are posting articles about living in bunkers.

“By collapse, I mean a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time.” — Jared Diamond in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)

People who criticize billionaires for foolishly building underground bunkers believe they can survive the impending doom of climate change by hunkering down on a homestead.

Both groups are attempting to escape the realities of collapse. It’s a race that most humans will likely lose. It’s now a question of whether the species can survive extinction.

On one hand the survivalists (rightfully) poo-poo plans for colonizing Mars as too difficult on a “dead planet” while simultaneously clinging to the belief that for all their beans and bullets, gardens and wells —the hoarded supplies of a prepper will see them through the sixth mass extinction on a dying Earth. It’s the poor-man’s version of an Elysium space station.

The cognitive dissonance must physically hurt.

And let’s admit what no one is saying out loud. The carefully made plans for some sort of Neo-Thoreau lifestyle is more about surviving the collapse of civilization in relative safety and comfort than reducing a carbon footprint — the same attitude that put us in this predicament in the first place.

And if you read my response to Frank's little tantrum in context, I was showing restraint.

Call it erudite if you want.

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Call it erudite if you want.

I was being sarcastic. Your replies are anything but erudite. They're defensive, doctrinaire, and self-righteous.