When you use probabilistic risk management as your argument, it's hard not to see reason.
This one teacher has done what Gore never could, in my opinion. Telling people they're going to experience all the worst parts of the Bible and then Ragnarok thrown in for good measure, may work for some, but others are still active deniers. If you instead simplify the reasoning in the way you'd probably weigh up your own finances or what have you, then it becomes far more easily digested.
I wish this guy luck. He's already got a fair few hits on this, so maybe the word is getting out.
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Well, really the point is still the same, just that he expanded on it in a better way after having a tonne of feedback. The principle of weighing up risk versus cost underlies all the videos.Adrian Laguna wrote:
No actually, it's because that video has a "hole large enough to drive a Hummer through". He made another, better, one with no such hole.
I never was a Global Warming denier, but now my mind is truly settled. I'm posting this on every forum I know that doesn't have it already.
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Having thought about this, I now realise that the type of argument presented in the OP can also be used with regard to Peak Oil - in addition to simply being foolish to base our whole civilisation on one fuel source,it makes sense to plan for the worst and hope for the best, especially considering the consequences of planning for the worst are better than then consequences of not doing so and turning out to be wrong.
The fact that oil is a finite resource seems to pass many people by, as well.
The fact that oil is a finite resource seems to pass many people by, as well.
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker - Mikhail Bakunin
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society - Karl Marx
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value - R. Buckminster Fuller
The important thing is not to be human but to be humane - Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
Nova Mundi, my laughable attempt at an original worldbuilding/gameplay project
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The argument is a fundamental basis for big business and insurance, simply because you can not bet your whole corporate portfolio on the chances of something that might happen not happening.
As the guy said in the video, no one expects they'll wake up to a flooded house one day, but it could happen if you're in a prone area and that is why we take out insurance. We don't need to know 100% that something will happen and when it will happen when talking about home security, so why should the only planet we have be any different?
As the guy said in the video, no one expects they'll wake up to a flooded house one day, but it could happen if you're in a prone area and that is why we take out insurance. We don't need to know 100% that something will happen and when it will happen when talking about home security, so why should the only planet we have be any different?
