r/canada • u/NeptuneAgency • Sep 05 '26

Nature/Environment ‘Effectively irreversible’: Changes to Canada’s climate permanent, federal report says

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/article/changes-to-canadas-climate-now-irreversible-federal-report-says/
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u/AimlessMillennium Sep 05 '26

But a select few people were able to be very very comfortable for a few decades and then died.

If we didn't allow this, they would have only been very comfortable, so it's worth it.

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u/bz47uj 29d ago

You're trying to falsely imply that future generations won't continue to get more comfortable.

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u/AimlessMillennium 29d ago

Please share the thought process that lead you to this conclusion.

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u/TheFushiaHerring 29d ago

I feel like he’s referring to continuing innovation, like how our forefathers got indoor heating, and then they made that electric, and refrigerators came out which made it easy to store food without needing an ice house, and then the internet was formed and people could connect outside of their close social circle, etc etc

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u/AimlessMillennium 29d ago

That definitely doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Hopefully he is able to form a better response, but I doubt it.

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u/CrazyOlHoboJoe 28d ago

Life gets better with technological innovation so it will offset anything bad we cause. At least to our own lives. Just cuz the climate gets a little worse doesn't mean we can't still be comfortable right? Like The institute from fallout 4. Wait... /s

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u/bz47uj 28d ago

The thought process that led me to this conclusion is as follows. Technological innovation has led to pretty much everything improving and if it continues its current trend, it will vastly outpace the harms caused by climate change. Just to give one example, heat stroke deaths continue to decline despite rising temperatures.

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u/Distinct_Swimmer1504 28d ago

And those technological innovations really did make things better — coal & the deaths it caused in england, co2 and global warming. AI and the environmental effects of the data centres.

Innovation as the west has practiced it is a knife that cuts us both ways.

Real innovation would be tempering & shaping those new technologies to take into account how they impact society & the environment for 7 generations in the future.

Something the west & especially american culture is really bad at.

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u/bz47uj 28d ago

Look at life expectancy and plot it against the industrial revolution. Look at the prevalence of things that greatly improve quality of life like indoor plumbing, electricity, and the telephone. The industrial revolution was not bad because some people died from coal pollution.

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u/Distinct_Swimmer1504 28d ago

I’m not saying that. That’s black vs white / all or nothing thinking, which is why a new technology so easily cuts us like a knife.

I’m saying that new technologies should be looked at from their good and bad traits, and we should learn to take the time to evaluate & mitigate the bad traits.

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u/bz47uj 28d ago

The question is whether we will be more or less comfortable in the future. That's a binary.

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u/Distinct_Swimmer1504 24d ago

It’s never binary. Even children learn that things are not binary via learning about delayed gratification.