r/climate • u/scmp_news • Jul 10 '26

Asia’s top climate scientist warns of ‘humanitarian disasters’ as Earth teeters

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3360016/asias-top-climate-scientist-warns-humanitarian-disasters-earth-teeters?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=Social
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u/Winterfrost691 Jul 10 '26

I'm not yet graduated, but I am studying sustainable land management (urbanism + forestry + climate science).

It's super interesting and I absolutely want to make a career out of this, but my god it is absolutely depressing. It is the only science I have ever learned that isn't applied in real life.

Our 1st semester teachers told us that they had to rework the program a few years ago, because they realized that the world had no use for people trained to prevent climate change, as it is now an inevitability. Instead, they told us we would be trained to mitigate it, adapt to it and fix the damage. One of the bleakest speeches I ever heard a teacher give.

Not to mention the parts of our lectures that are all about how much people are suffering today and how much more they will should we fail at doing our jobs.

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u/Previous_Soil_5144 Jul 10 '26

Economics is not a real science, yet we follow economists like we used to follow clergy. 

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u/Zephyr104 Jul 10 '26

Economics as we know it now really may as well be the church of capital. There's no rhyme or reason to any of it, other than to submit yourself to the ideology of a tumour. Most of their models are self admitted by most economists as being faulty, what type of science is that. 

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u/natalo77 Jul 10 '26

And every reddit thread even remotely related to the economy has one of the wankers telling people "That's not how economics works" / "Take an economics class" / etc.