How It All Ends: Risk Management (pt 7 of 7)

Part of the "Expansion Pack" of videos accompanying the video "How It All Ends." See "How It All Ends: Index" for a roadmap to guide you through the expansion pack.

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[shutemdwn]

i cant find the cookies and punch :(

[wonderingmind42]

Yeah, budget cuts. Sorry.

[KID433321]

did your friend actually die from driving drunk?

[wonderingmind42]

Yes, shortly after high school. He was the passenger, and both he and the driver (both classmates from high school) were drunk. The diver survived with minimal injuries. My friend was killed when the tree impinged on his side of the car.

Blug.

[rashkavar]

Excellent series of videos; I'm glad to see someone trying to be proactive without resorting to appeals to faith or emotion rather than logic (I know I'll get burned for spurning faith, so I'll say it now: faith have their place. It is not here.)

The comment about that economist with his "non-finite copper:" I've heard that quote in classes (as a mining engineer), and what I think he was trying to say is that copper can be reused - there will never be no copper left. Just poor/spin wording.

[KnittyGrittyNatch]

I'm glad you explained Pascal's wager. I was wondering about that and thought, because this is based on fact and not theory, it was not so similar to Pascal's wager.

[SSedmak]

@SSedmak To clarify: several economists in 2006 predicted that a recession would start in the vicinity of early 2008. They were massively ridiculed by the "credible" economists who saw nothing but good times ahead.

The "credible" economists also thought that unemployment would stay under 8% if Obama's stimulus plan was passed. The "credible" economists continue to make bad prediction after bad prediction, but are never called out for what they are: biased shills for politicians and banks.

[SSedmak]

Please revisit the credibility of the economic experts you talked to in the wake of the recent recession. Did they warn of recession in 2006? If not, then they have zero credibility. Zero.

Because there were many economists who did predict the recession in 2006, but the "credible" economists laughed at them in public.

So, who really has credibility? It's not just a popularity contest. Accuracy of predictions matters.

[rashkavar]

time than is available from earth, but we're nowhere near that level yet, and by the time we are, we'll likely have secured other sources like asteroid mining colonies and the like.

Of course, all this is dependant on our ability to survive the impending climate disaster (whether or not it was caused by our primitive industrial exploits).

[rashkavar]

@itchynights

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Perhaps I'm guilty of poor wording, as well.

Realistically speaking, though, if we have all of the copper in the earth's crust extracted and in the recycling loop, we'll have an essentially infinite supply for (I'm tempted to say centuries, but I'll go with decades) to come. There's a lot of copper (and any other metal of significance, for that matter) out there. I'm sure we'll eventually reach a point where we need more at any point in....

[itchynights]

@rashkavar

But even if copper is being reused, there is still a finite amount of it. Maybe he meant to say we can infinitely reuse finite copper supplies?

[rabiesman888]

awesome videos you remind me of dwight from the office in this one lol

[handplanty]

@ LEONECOR: (2) Just Google the copypasted name of the article and it should pop right up, even if it redirects you to Google Scholar. The names and insitutions of the authors are given in the footnotes on the first page, the rest of the sources are given in the rest of the article.

Also I recommend checking out NASA's Terra flights and their Living With A Star program (one more gold standard besides NAS).

Yes, I do realize I'm 3 months late, I just like to help people ;)

[handplanty]

@ LEONECOR: (1) A large group of very credible insitutions recently collected all the data that could help indicate climate change (bird migrations, reproduction times, flower bloom, everything), over 29,500 data sets and called the report:

"attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change"

I'm not asking you to evaluate the science behind it or even examine the content of the article. You asked for the sources, so please check out the authors and their souces too.

[Sentry353]

Hey, I like Cheetos! Not as much as Pringles, but like them I do.

GCC is just another way of gaining all encompassing control of the masses. The world's not going to end "at the tipping point".

Explain to me why they are calling for spending $47T globally to combat GCC, but have only spent $500B over the last decade plus to find and track killer asteroids. GCC = half the population gone. Asteroid = nothing gets to live.

Why?

All this guy is suggesting is speed up the process.