Extreme Weather Events

1st principle: climate change

The science is clear is for 50 years:

'So they knew': Ocasio-Cortez questions Exxon scientist on climate crisis denial - video

(assuming climate change as 1st principle, not debating individual extreme weather events)

What is less clear - direct consequence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Adaptation

Deep Adaptation is a concept and social movement based on the view that humanity needs to prepare for the possibility of societal collapse, as environmental change increasingly disrupts social, economic, and political systems. Unlike climate change adaptation, which aims to adapt societies gradually to the effects of climate change, Deep Adaptation is premised on acceptance of impending abrupt transformations of the environment.

The paper has achieved popularity, having been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times and providing the nucleus for online communities with thousands of members.

Direct link to the source: https://jembendell.com/2019/05/15/deep-adaptation-versions/

From the opening paragraph:

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide readers with an opportunity to reassess their work and life in the face of what I believe to be an inevitable near-term societal collapse due to climate change.

Who do you trust?

Fact that Deep Adaptation is disputed / dismissed / debunked is the best evidence that as a humanity we lost sense making ability we are heading towards a collapse.

Fact that Deep Adaptation is disputed / dismissed / debunked is the best evidence that as a humanity we lost sense making ability we are heading towards a collapse.

As a human civilisation, we are not prepared to deal with fake news.

Yes? No? True? False? Right? Wrong? Sounds like 50 / 50 deal for me.

https://twitter.com/20thcenturymarc/status/1133395241837506561

Dealing with fake news is nothing else than hybrid warfare

Hybrid warfare is a military strategy which employs political warfare and blends conventional warfare, irregular warfare and cyberwarfare with other influencing methods, such as fake news, diplomacy, lawfare and foreign electoral intervention.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/1/15726472/trump-tweets-global-warming-paris-climate-agreement

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/1/15726472/trump-tweets-global-warming-paris-climate-agreement