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"Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst‑case scenarios"
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Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst‑case scenarios
London is underwater. The Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and the Bank of England are all submerged. Far away, the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets have collapsed, triggering accelerated sea-level rise which, combined with a storm surge in the North Sea and a high spring tide, has led to water flooding over the Thames Barrier. Thousands of shops, offices, schools and houses are several feet deep in effluent-rich water.

Schopenhauer had this observation that human beings basically oscillate perpetually between desire and boredom. And that when we’re not frantically chasing something, we are miserable from the wanting.
But then when we actually finally get the thing, we’re almost immediately bored and then we start reaching for the next thing. And well, his conclusion was basically that most of human activity is just like an elaborate boredom avoidance process.
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Pathologizing Our Own Humanity
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