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Job loses 4 times as bad as 2009, climate change cognitive bias and hopium of the first world, and refreezing the Arctic Ocean ASAP.

"I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking." Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets! - Bill Hicks.

Job losses from pandemic 4 times as bad as 2009 financial crisis (PBS article) - source

“This has been the most severe crisis for the world of work since The Great Depression of the 1930s. Its impact is far greater than that of the global financial crisis of 2009,” said ILO Director-General Guy Ryder. The fallout was almost equally split between reduced work hours and “unprecedented” job losses, he said.

Climate Change cognitive bias - (Guardian article) - source

In one strikingly depressing scene in his recent book Don’t Even Think About It, climate change activist George Marshall interviews the Nobel prizewinning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, the leading scholar of cognitive biases, and tries to nudge him into saying that understanding our brains’ limitations will, at the very least, make it easier to overcome them. “I’m not very optimistic about that,” Kahneman replies, despondently sipping tomato soup. “No amount of psychological awareness will overcome people’s reluctance to lower their standard of living. So that’s my bottom line: there is not much hope. I’m thoroughly pessimistic. I’m sorry.” The pessimism of experts provides yet another reason to pay attention to something else, anything else, instead of climate change: why choose to spend your days feeling relentlessly depressed?

The hopium of first world citizen climate change - (Reuters article) - source

According to the article, as long you're pushing for climate policies, tackling climate change does not require Americans (or average first-world citizens) to diminish their lifestyles. It's saying you can decouple climate change and economic growth. This is "hopium". You can't stop climate change without lowering the first world standard of living. But don't worry, it will happen anyway, you just won't be prepared in any way for what's coming. 

We need to start refreezing the Arctic Ocean as soon as possible to save our megacities - Independent article - source

Sir David King, former chief science adviser to UK govt, says Arctic has passed the tipping point. Says existing 1.1C rise in temp is too dangerous, calls for immediate moratorium on all new fossil fuel investments, and the need to sequester CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Bill Gates owns more farmland than anyone else - Source

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