by DMurray » Sun Jul 07, 2019 7:47 pm
I like to look at APOD because that photos are beautiful,educational and uplifting. Unfortunately, this picture mostly made me despair about our ability and willingness to address climate change in a meaningful way. I'm sorry, but the whole idea of a charter flight spewing out who knows how many tons of CO2 over the southern Pacific so that a bunch of relatively wealthy people form the northern hemisphere can have an additional 4 minutes of eclipse doesn't seem to me like something that we should be doing if we are serious about stopping climate change. Of course, individual actions aren't going to solve climate change, the system is the problem, yadda, yadda, yadda. Well the system is US and we need to both collectively and individually start making decisions that address climate change rather than just compartmentalizing climate change into something that is a "political" problem. I usually refrain from pointing things like this out because my motivation is not to call out specific individuals for their behavior, but to point out that we need to think about the consequences of our actions and carefully consider what makes sense and what doesn't before we act.
I like to look at APOD because that photos are beautiful,educational and uplifting. Unfortunately, this picture mostly made me despair about our ability and willingness to address climate change in a meaningful way. I'm sorry, but the whole idea of a charter flight spewing out who knows how many tons of CO2 over the southern Pacific so that a bunch of relatively wealthy people form the northern hemisphere can have an additional 4 minutes of eclipse doesn't seem to me like something that we should be doing if we are serious about stopping climate change. Of course, individual actions aren't going to solve climate change, the system is the problem, yadda, yadda, yadda. Well the system is US and we need to both collectively and individually start making decisions that address climate change rather than just compartmentalizing climate change into something that is a "political" problem. I usually refrain from pointing things like this out because my motivation is not to call out specific individuals for their behavior, but to point out that we need to think about the consequences of our actions and carefully consider what makes sense and what doesn't before we act.