{"id":427716,"date":"2026-02-24T15:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=427716"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:16:19","slug":"sabine-hossenfelder-climate-action-is-like-preventative-cancer-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=427716","title":{"rendered":"Sabine Hossenfelder: Climate Action is Like Preventative Cancer Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by <\/strong>Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sabine Hossenfelder<\/a>\u00a0is a high-profile science influencer. I\u2019m a fan \u2013 except for her misconceptions about climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why I fear for the future of mankind<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0.00 We\u2019ve given up on climate change. This  is what I take away from the news.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0:36 About 10 years ago I was diagnosed with  a tumour. The doc said I should have it  removed as soon as possible. I had  a preventive surgery. I voluntarily  made myself temporarily miserable,  to avoid worse consequences later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change is like that, just not on an  individual level, but on a species level.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1:59 Another problem has been all the people who  claimed that solving this problem would be \u201csimple\u201d and that the energy transition is  a win-win solution. Everyone is going to  be better off with renewables, because it will  create jobs and wealth and prosperity and so on. The most vivid demonstration of this  problem has been Greta Thunberg.<\/strong> A child  of a reasonably wealthy family in a wealthy  country who has never had to work to heat a house or feed a family. Most people knew  that these \u201cwin-win\u201d tales were always lies.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2:50 energy transition that isn\u2019t happening because it\u2019s never been realistic.<\/strong> It\u2019s because everyone knew they were being lied to about the  true cost. And that\u2019s why they\u2019re against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3:07 isn\u2019t just an American thing, we have this  here in Europe too, just not as explicitly. It\u2019s no longer because they don\u2019t believe that  the climate is changing or that we\u2019re causing it. It\u2019s because they think they\u2019re being lied  to about what the \u201cgreen deals\u201d will actually  mean for them.<\/strong> And it\u2019s why now, I think, a  lot of people are relieved that it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5:01 This failure worries me not so much about  climate change itself.<\/strong> It will be bad for  my retirement savings, it will be bad for our  children, but maybe in two or three generations,  progress will resume. No, it worries me because it  means we are almost certainly also too stupid to solve other problems.<\/strong> Regulating artificial  intelligence is a good example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gBHSmwxgLfQ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sabine\u2019s video from which the above transcript was taken;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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