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[–] 36 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Uhhhh.... they've been warning us for many decades, now? (and sounding alarms)

There's also the fact that Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius (and others) discovered key mechanisms of the Greenhouse Effect, and CO2's key role in such, back in the 1800's. So you know, want to know about a science issue? Maybe ask literal scientists?

It's not the body of relevant scientists that are letting us down, Dafty...

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Geologist here. It's really depressing being in the community these days. We're continually being defunded and we know better than most what a systemic crisis this planet's ecosystem is in. For some reason we thought it was a good idea to put lawyers in charge of everything instead of experts.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    We’re continually being defunded

    Well, that's the disaster happening in the States, but the time-stamp here suggests maybe you're... in Western Europe? Shit, so what's the trouble with lawyers, in this case?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Defunding is perennial and global, even if it's not a targetted action like in the US. Consider for example that in the last 25 years the number of PhDs doubled while the funding of the National Science Foundation stayed flat. In the EU the situation is better, with funding at least keeping pace with inflation, but national funding depends on the whims of the current ruling party (I'm in the Czech Repoublic btw where we just elected a right-wing billionaire). Even in the best case the average acceptance rate for a grant is 10 or 15%, but in my experience it's lower.

    As for lawyers being in charge, I mean what's the degree you go get if you want to enter politics? In China it's engineering. In the West, almost a third of politicians have law degrees even though the fraction of lawyers in society is much less than one percent.

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