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To: elpolvo who wrote (25)	4/23/2019 3:35:56 PM
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The rate and breadth of climate degradation does call for a little humor. Dark humor. Climate change humor. Making climate change funny " “What would happen if we stepped back and approached climate change with a sense of humor?” Sachs said, offering some examples of attempts to deliver environmental messages with humor. In a “Funny or Die” video, famous actors, now all seniors, face the camera and offer reasons they don’t care about climate change. Ed Asner, for example, says he’s more occupied with “stealing silverware and getting enough fiber …. My grandkids are spoiled anyway. They could use a little hardship.” '

To: elpolvo who wrote (25)	5/7/2019 6:43:18 PM
From: axial	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39

The ideas here aren't well understood. Reorganize? Perhaps a website is the only answer ... many different aspects apply, and SI isn't really meant for this. It's a chat site, mostly. If the header was divided into sections, with relevant posts (links) added to each as they occur [eg. Energy 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.] — Energy — Complexity — Mass behavior — Economics — Survival ___________________________ Elsewhere, some have posted comments about complexity. But as it applies to climate and mass behaviour, comments are inaccurate. ___________________________ — Mass behaviour, for example, is fractal. There's no "new" mass behaviour. From flight to fright and everything in between (manias, evasion, negotiation, combined behaviours, etc.) it's all just self-similar iteration. The particulars are different through time -- history NEVER repeats -- but when the situation re-occurs, mass behaviour repeats. — Is it understood that climate change will eventually cause the demise of capitalism? Not trade —capitalism. — Energy: is it clear? No energy = a lifeless planet. Excess energy = growth and profit. Balanced energy = stasis. Insufficient energy = decline and death. — Is it understood that as climate change costs increase, GDP decreases? Tax revenues decrease? — Weather is fractal. There is no "new" weather —and weather is how climate is expressed. Temperature, precipitation, winds -- nothing new. Climate change means new proportions of weather, driven by energy. — In complexity, when a new regime is established, the attractor changes. In the new regime, the new attractor is the new range of variations. Climate -- and climate change -- is a complex adaptive system driven by energy inputs. The attractor is changing -- meaning new weather extremes. ___________________________ Comments, thoughts appreciated. Would the proposed thread changes increase understanding?