Dr. Elizabeth SawinDec 7, 2022
Proposal to stop referring to covid in the past tense and climate change in the future tense.
Show threadBritish Tech GuruDec 7, 2022

@bethsawin Agreed. Covid is a very much underplayed, very dangerous threat.

The climate has always changed. Where we disagree is over the negligible impact man has over it.

Show threadNell DesperandumDec 8, 2022
@britishtechguru @bethsawin
Right, but where we should agree is that there is accelerating change and there must be ways to at least mitigate the impact on our lives.
Like not building houses on flood plains, for a start.
Show threadBritish Tech GuruDec 8, 2022
@disalmon1 @bethsawin Sure - change is happening as it always has. We might be able to mitigate some of it. The fact is there have been 5 mass extinction events on Earth. It is unlikely that there will not be a 6th, 7th and 8th. No matter how much mitigation is employed, mankind is unlikely to survive the next event.
Show threadNell Desperandum
@britishtechguru @bethsawin
I hate to be a pessimist, but I think we’ll have destroyed the environment, and ourselves with it, before the next event.
On the other hand, if we simply destroy ourselves, with war, greed and disease, the rest of nature will carry happily on.
Dec 8, 2022 at 4:58pmWeb
Show threadBritish Tech GuruDec 8, 2022
@disalmon1 @bethsawin The human race has always been harmful and destructive. The universe will probably breathe a sigh of relief when the human race is vanished.
Show threadNell DesperandumDec 8, 2022
@britishtechguru @bethsawin
True, but I would like my great grandchildren, currently full of life and hope, to have a chance to grow up.
I just hope Elon Musk’s ambition to colonise Mars never happens The moon is already a rubbish dump.
Show threadBritish Tech GuruDec 8, 2022
@disalmon1 @bethsawin if musk colonizes Mars, do you think we can send all the useless people to Mars?
Show threadNell DesperandumDec 9, 2022
@britishtechguru @bethsawin
That would be a bit unfair to any Martians who happen to live there!
Show threadBritish Tech GuruDec 9, 2022
@disalmon1 @bethsawin Perhaps they already send all their criminals, lunatics and social undesirables to Earth? I bet you've looked at somebody and realized that they really aren't from the same planet!
Show threadNell DesperandumDec 11, 2022
@britishtechguru @bethsawin
Funny you should say that. I immediately thought of John Redwood & Jacob Rees Mogg. 🤣
Show threadBritish Tech GuruDec 11, 2022
@disalmon1 @bethsawin Oh yes.. John Redwood - the architect of the 1980s economic collapse and the destruction of the mining industry.