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Across the world Friday, students skipped class to protest their governments failure to take sufficient measures to curb climate change.
It all started with 16 year old Greta Thunberg of Sweden:
who began holding solitary demonstrations outside the Swedish parliament last year. Since then, the weekly protests have snowballed from a handful of cities to hundreds, fueled by dramatic headlines about the impact of climate change during the students' lifetime.
Thunberg has been nominated for a Nobel peace prize for her efforts.
The protestors are calling for a list of anti-climate change actions and solutions including:
Our Demands
- Green New Deal
- A halt in any and all fossil fuel infrastructure projects
- All decisions made by the government be based on the best-available and most-current scientific research.
- Declaring a National Emergency on Climate Change
- Compulsory comprehensive education on climate change and its impacts throughout grades K-8
- Preserving our public lands and wildlife
- Keeping our water supply clean
Our Solutions
- The extraction of Greenhouse Gases from the atmosphere
- Emission standards and benchmarks
- Changing the agriculture industry
- Using renewable energy and building renewable energy infrastructure
- Stopping the unsustainable and dangerous process of fracking
- Stop mountaintop removal/mining
In a speech Friday outside the United Nations HQ in New York, Alexandria Villasenor, one of the founders of Youth Climate Strike U.S. said:
world leaders weren't listening. "Our world leaders are the ones acting like children," she said. "They are the ones having tantrums, arguing with each other and refusing to take responsibility for their actions while the planet burns."
At one of these planned protests a year or two back, permission forms were sent home in advance so kids could get parental permission to participate in skipping school and protesting. Kids who didn't participate were taunted and harassed by the other kids.
How does your school treat such events?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Saturday March 16 2019, @08:04AM (14 children)
>All decisions made by the government be based on the best-available and most-current scientific research
My AI wonders... what such a government would do on overpopulation studies.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by MostCynical on Saturday March 16 2019, @08:07AM (1 child)
Soylent green.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2, Funny) by robpow on Saturday March 16 2019, @09:15AM
That’s News to me!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @08:12AM (1 child)
What really rustles my jimmies is the fact that very few of those students really want that. They don't want nuclear at all. Instead, what they truly want is bellythink PV solar and wind because they understand it, or so they think.
I'm so tired of both sides of this climate change business. Either they don't believe it or they do, but none want a real modern solution.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 16 2019, @01:39PM
There is no drama in a solution. Historically, women often get pissed at men who offer solutions. The women prefer to sit around, and talk about their feelings and shit. If a problem is solved, then those feelings are no longer legitimate, so the women have to seek out another problem to boo-hoo over.
It's amazing how much politics are like that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @08:17AM (1 child)
The obvious solution is to have an AI decide on how to resolve that problem, and just remove people from the decision-making process entirely since everyone is biased.
What could possibly go wrong? [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday March 16 2019, @03:49PM
You'll just get something indecipherable. 42 for instance.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aiwarrior on Saturday March 16 2019, @09:24AM (3 children)
Your AI would probably distribute next day pills which cannot be controlled by men. Your AI also would reduce birth mortality and infant death, because there is evidence that it reduces the number of children per couple.
Another thing your AI would do is force schooling of girls and empower them without fear of repression. Wherever women have a say in society the fertility numbers drop abruptly. If your AI was the Stalin kind (no people no more problems) it would probably execute men for domestic violence crimes. Domestic violence is a very complicated problem and a plight of our human condition :(
And hey! I am a man and would like to have 4 children, to which my wife said: "Keep dreaming". Of course in another society I would just override my woman into her "role", but alas this is not the way things work, and she is a "Turing test passing being" that has the $DEITY given right to freedom.
I really would like all prejudices to treated with a Turing test. That is how i guide my moral compass. If a person spoke with me and I would not distinguish her/him from any other through her conversation then there is freedom to be respected.
(Score: 3, Funny) by krishnoid on Saturday March 16 2019, @09:43AM (2 children)
Well, technically she can't completely prevent you from having 4 children ...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday March 16 2019, @10:21AM (1 child)
My sister says Bobbitt.
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(Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Saturday March 16 2019, @07:59PM
Jesus I did not know this Bobbit affair.
I actually interpreted that the possibility of having 4 children would be through extra love making and polygamy :D
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday March 16 2019, @10:27AM (1 child)
I think this already happened, and they hired a consultant ... Thanos, I think his name was?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 16 2019, @02:25PM
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Saturday March 16 2019, @02:59PM (1 child)
One child policy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_population_planning [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday March 17 2019, @11:02AM
MY AI reads one child policy and thinks 6999999999 children too much.
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