They're two separate things arent they? you can discuss the possibility of a subconscious drive towards catastrophe whilst maintaining a commitment to fighting climate change
The mass shooters in the US often seem to be seeking catastrophe, both for themselves and others.
I worry about the effect of all the zombie apocalypse ideation, what's that prepping us for?But also more likely that they can be prevented. We imagine an asteroid impact so we monitor the skies to try and mitigate. We imagine the pandemic and create vaccines and medicines. We imagine the flood and build arks and sea walls. We imagine the inferno so we install smoke alarms and do fire drills.
You cannot avoid a catastrophe if you cannot conceive of it.
Sort of species level self-sabotageyoure assuming that if humans secretly desire catastrophe on some level then catastrophic climate change is caused by that desire
youre assuming that if humans secretly desire catastrophe on some level then catastrophic climate change is caused by that desire
Sort of species level self-sabotage
and even then, even if it is, it's not an argument for doing nothing
when you hoover a room, you can be sure that at some point someone definitely will come in and make a mess of it again. keeping a room clean is an ongoing process it's not something you do once
suppose such an outcome is inevitable. it's still the case that you want to put it off as much as possible. it's not an argument for doing nothing.
there's an interesting book (which I haven't read but I've seen referenced in a few places) called Topsoil and Civilisation. it argues that destruction of topsoil is a constant and limiting factor in the history of human civilisation. at some point, a civilisation exhausts its available arable land and dies. something like a death drive isn't necessary to generate this kind of outcome, simple lack of knowledge, or inability to act on that knowledge at scale, will suffice.
Totally, but I think if you were to tell a bunch of people to do something difficult and uncomfortable to prevent something which was going to happen anyway then one of their first questions would be to ask why they should bother.