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YawnTractor_1756 t1_jc77bjh wrote

Reply to comment by Strazdas1 in Confirmed: Global floods, droughts worsening with warming by besselfunctions

  • "New hospital, cool right, but when you remember that healthcare is cripplingly expensive it's depressing"
  • "New school cool right, but when you remember that teachers are underpaid it's depressing"
  • "New houses cool right, but when you remember few young people can afford houses it's depressing"
  • "New festival cool right, but when you remember how many people go without enough food it's depressing."

If you want to find depressing element in anything, you will. I am trying my best, but one has to choose to be happy, to actually be happy.

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YawnTractor_1756 t1_jc76leb wrote

Reply to comment by Ghost-of-Tom-Chode in Confirmed: Global floods, droughts worsening with warming by besselfunctions

>What’s it going to be in another 50 years?

In 1894 the Times predicted that “in 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure.”

It can be 5% worse or 15% better, or both, because life is not actually one-dimensional, so even when you write "everything is getting worse" it's not actually true, I just don't want to argue every word.

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Tall-Log-1955 t1_jc75iwj wrote

Reply to comment by Ghost-of-Tom-Chode in Confirmed: Global floods, droughts worsening with warming by besselfunctions

That's not true. Climate change is getting worse, but aside from that most things are actually getting better. The past was a terrible place to live.

Modern tech has just made it much much easier for bad news to get to you

The world is terrible but it's better than it used to be and it can still get better:

https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better

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InTheEndEntropyWins t1_jc74yk0 wrote

Reply to comment by Strazdas1 in 60% of US foods Contain technical food additives, new study finds by diosmio

>People ate more, but that wasnt the fault of the meals.

I don't really know what you mean by "fault" here.

They established that one of the causal factors of how much someone ate was whether the food was ultra-processed or not.

So I would say it is partially the fault of the meals.

There is a reason why pretty much every health organisation and expert in the field say's to limit consumption of ultra processed foods.

>You should limit highly processed foods and drinks because they are not a part of a healthy eating pattern.
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>https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/healthy-eating-recommendations/limit-highly-processed-foods/

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Ihadanapostrophe t1_jc74llw wrote

Reply to comment by goobershank in Confirmed: Global floods, droughts worsening with warming by besselfunctions

Because global warming of the kind we are causing/experiencing is quite literally unprecedented in human civilization. We have no method currently feasible at large-scale to undo the damage we've created.

It is going to be horrible, no matter what we do. It does have the potential to be civilization-ending. That's pretty much the end of humans as an advanced species.

If we lose our current level of civilization, we will likely never truly become a space-faring species and will instead end when the Earth does.

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