Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Greece: Firefighters can no longer bring wildfires under control | DW News" video.

  1. I'm fascinated by people who keep acting like information about climate change actually being bad and going in a bad direction has been low key. nevermind listening to experts and seeking out information - the number and intensity of warnings about climate change from the UN general secretary and UN climate change commission alone that you people have been missing is incredible. this is a perfect topic to listen to the UN about, they're making a very big research effort, and their predictions are horrifying, while so far reality has actually consistently surpassed the worst case scenarios that the UN has been predicting. do you know ANYTHING about what is happening ANYWHERE? I have also heard someone insist before that climate change has only started being a big topic in the last 5-10 years - guys, it was the main topic that al gore ran his US presidential campaign on in 2000, it almost became america's new big project before the war on terror got in the way! it started being a somewhat publically discussed issue in the 70s and 80s, gaining some public recognition by piggybacking on the problem of and globally coordinated resolution of atmospheric ozone depletion by chlorofluorocarbon emissions. fine, maybe the average cleetus didn't hear of it before the 90s. but in this century? no, you must have been living under a rock to not take note.
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  2. sorry, but that was stupidly bad preparation. I was surprised when they walked into that summer camp, and it was directly under the trees, within a continuous forest. greece is very well known for having some of the worst wildfire risk in europe, you simply cannot have buildings that you don't want burned down in greece among the trees connected directly to an arid forest. I'm sure they would want to preserve the big trees on the camp grounds, but they ought to have cut and permanently maintained a firebreak all around the camp. this is not the sort of thing you can fix with firefighting, it requires preparation. people need to get over their normality bias and update their preparedness for the new climate situation. "this place hasn't burned in decades, so we don't expect fire" doesn't work - that actually means greater fire risk, as more fuel will have accumulated.
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  3. 🤦
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  4. that wasn't even a fast-moving wildfire, the windspeed looks really low.
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  5. desalination? are you suggesting desalination for FIREFIGHTING WATER? 😮that is the most impractical application of desalination that I have ever heard of.
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  6. are you suggesting using F-4 phantoms as water bombers? I don't understand. you need slow planes for that, and flying boats normally make most sense.
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  7. probably a bit exaggerated, I would consider it to not be one of the really difficult mathematical concepts for average people to understand. but it certainly is a common problem that normality bias and exponential functions mix extremely badly, with people generally being inclined to wait until things get bad before they do anything. I'd say thebest recent example is the amount of trouble that could have been prevented if chinese authorities had gone straight to extreme control measures in response to early covid cases, instead of trying to deny it for 4-6 weeks. in hindsight, they could have eradicated the disease with certainly fewer than 10.000, probably fewer than 1000 cases, and ended all public restrictions by february or march 2020.
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  8.  @TheSwissChalet  lukashenka, this you?
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