On: Seaweed could be scrubbing more carbon from the atmosphere than expected (2017)

[samfriedman]

Something I think of often when people say things like "we need to stop climate change and save the world!" The world will be fine, it's not going anywhere: humans and the species we like on the other hand...

[_carl_jung → samfriedman]

"The world" is a synecdoche in that context. These people don't literally think we're going to make the earth disappear.

[older → samfriedman]

Are you George Carlin?

[samfriedman → older]

Ah, yes, that's where I first heard that thought! Thanks, just a bit of cryptomnesia.

https://youtu.be/BB0aFPXr4n4?t=144

Side note: something I've never seen before on that Youtube video: it links the Wikipedia page for climate change right under the video. An attempt to battle misleading videos perhaps?

[rement → samfriedman]

The Wikipedia links are a new initiative Google is doing to combat fake news and misleading information [0].

0: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2018/07/building-better-news-...

[eanzenberg → samfriedman]

Humans will be fine. Dumb humans on the other hand...