when someone sees an article online about an “engineered famine” due to COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccines, and conducts an unsophisticated search based on those keywords, they may find articles that reaffirm their bias.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Confirmation bias is real.
But there is a problem: SF authors such as myself are popular entertainers who work to amuse an audience that is trained on what to expect by previous generations of science-fiction authors. We are not trying to accurately predict possible futures but to earn a living: any foresight is strictly coincidental.
This may be true for Mr. Stross. I don't believe Farenheit 451 or Nineteen Eighty-Four were written just because the authors needed a pay day.
Here is the analysis:
According to a new analysis, for every $1,000 dollars the average American keeps in savings, each year they indirectly create emissions equivalent to flying from New York to Seattle.
That is 235.10 kg CO2.
https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/CarbonOffset/Pages/default.aspx
https://applications.icao.int/icec/Methodology%20ICAO%20Carbon%20Calculator_v11.1-2018.pdf
the average is $8k.
It is the median.
Reset the clock.
It’s also when they somehow collectively forgot about the second half of the Second Amendment.
The second half?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I think Menendez represents some serious competition for that title:
but you see, the tank operators are mostly water, and water doesn't compress
don't need uncomfortable seats
emotional support fish doubles as emergency rations
What could go wrong with that?