[HN Gopher] David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the st...
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David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'
Author : herbertl
Score : 33 points
Date : 2025-06-15 21:21 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| bayarearefugee wrote:
| I think that not seeing how the story ends will be a blessing in
| disguise.
|
| (I do not share his optimism that we fix this, the forces of Line
| Must Go Up are going to win... at least until we all rapidly
| lose)
| abbadadda wrote:
| "No one cares about the bomb that didn't go off." - Tenet
|
| Preventing "bombs" from going off is not rewarded. And indeed
| the Line Must Go Up Crowd is reliant upon someone else fixing
| the problem while they get theirs. But when the majority think
| that way we're f**ed.
| antithesizer wrote:
| The bombs not dropped here today remain available to be
| dropped elsewhere tomorrow, so perhaps we shouldn't pat
| ourselves on the back just yet.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| I agree. I reflect on this from time to time when I consider
| that my mom, having died a few years back, would not be
| enjoying much of anything going on in the world right now.
| (Further, that she was born at the close of WWII in the U.S.,
| she may have been lucky enough to have lived in the best part
| of recent history here.)
| tgsovlerkhgsel wrote:
| My theory: The forces of Line Must Go Up are going to keep
| winning. Mitigating the impact of climate change will be part
| of Line Goes Up. Whether it will be cheaper or more expensive
| than avoiding it in the first place will remain to be seen (but
| won't really matter in the end), but we will be facing whatever
| impacts we will be facing, and we will face them, and we will
| deal with them.
|
| If you have any doubt, look at how the Netherlands dealt with
| storm surge.
| neonate wrote:
| https://archive.md/CFCFn
| malux85 wrote:
| Nobody sees how the story ends
| teruakohatu wrote:
| I can understand there is an inherit sadness in not knowing the
| outcome of one's life's work, but as you say none of use ever
| see how it ends. In terms of our natural environment humankind
| has only ever observed in person, let alone recorded, what
| amounts to the blink of an eye.
| tclancy wrote:
| The Sundays beg to differ.
| esseph wrote:
| Are you alluding to some religious thing?
|
| Fear of oblivion and/or the unknown is fucking scary.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Certainly this: https://youtu.be/FHsip5xOenQ
| zakki wrote:
| So is the Fridays ;)
| rzzzt wrote:
| Avril Lavigne as well.
| create-username wrote:
| Our generations of the last 10,000 years are seeing how the
| story decays.
|
| When the food supply was abundant, families would jog every day
| doing BBQ every night hunting down mammoths
|
| We have become red in tooth and claw. At the summit of
| civilisation, we are alienated with our screens, licking frozen
| TV dinners in our shared flat while we work hard to support our
| landlords
| antithesizer wrote:
| Depends which story. Every death is the end of somebody's
| world.
| Silhouette wrote:
| None of us see the end of the story but I do fear that the story
| could change when we inevitably lose a passionate advocate in Sir
| David whose credibility on this issue has been unchallengeable.
|
| I take some comfort from the younger generations who are now
| growing up with a much greater awareness of the natural
| environment and the damage we humans can do to it and a much
| lower tolerance for political sophistry and capitalist all-about-
| the-money "ethics". With the selfishness of politics in much of
| the world today I think things will probably get worse before
| they get better. I still hope that we won't cross any points of
| no return as those younger people gain influence and those of
| older generations who are not always as enlightened and concerned
| as Sir David also leave us.
|
| I think those younger generations will have better chances if
| there is a highly visible advocate for protecting the natural
| world for ordinary people to coalesce around. I don't know who
| the next David Attenborough could be. Perhaps one of his final
| gifts to humanity can be helping to find and establish the
| profile(s) of natural successor(s) who can carry on his work.
| hammock wrote:
| I'm confused. We are beyond the point of no return when it comes
| to global warming. Hasnt he already seen how the story ends?
| placatedmayhem wrote:
| The narrative climax to the human story around climate change
| has yet to happen. Assuming we continue on the current
| trajectory, expect riots and wars over food and clean water,
| possibly more.
| hermitcrab wrote:
| I watched David Attenborough's recent film 'Ocean' on a big
| screen. The footage of bottom trawling was really shocking. I
| don't understand how that has been allowed to continue in UK
| coastal waters, let alone to be subsidised in marine protected
| areas. Madness. It's like napalming a forest to get a few deer.
| Thankfully things may be changing:
|
| https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-proposes-to-ex...
|
| Don't know how much of that was due to the film.
| Velorivox wrote:
| The relevant excerpt. [0]
|
| [0] https://youtu.be/IzG9AwlypaY?feature=shared
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