You mean overworked, working in dangerous conditions, constantly pushed beyond our limits because the companies and society as well "depend on us"?
> And if you want to understand how they slept at night sweeping global warming under the rug look no further than our own corporations that are resisting regulation at every turn.
Probably wouldn't have commented on this if you hadn't used past tense. Today all this seems obvious. But since you do, -let me tell you that most of us haven't heard a thing about global warming until "An inconvenient truth" or about that time.
Pretending oil engineers kept this under the rug is a bit disingenuous.
As for our role in shaping the surveillance state, -that is a bit worse: we now know. Luckily we are already seeing resistance and I urge everyone to join in: do talk about it at work, do talk to politicians, try to influence decisions where you work.
> Probably wouldn't have commented on this if you hadn't used past tense. Today all this seems obvious. But since you do, -let me tell you that most of us haven't heard a thing about global warming until "An inconvenient truth" or about that time.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in 1988 and would have been established a decade earlier had it not been for aerosol pollution having a countervailing effect on temperature.
> Pretending oil engineers kept this under the rug is a bit disingenuous.
I see HN as less of a place for the equivalent of oil engineers and more of a place for current and future leaders.
> As for our role in shaping the surveillance state, -that is a bit worse: we now know. Luckily we are already seeing resistance and I urge everyone to join in: do talk about it at work, do talk to politicians, try to influence decisions where you work.
I'm doing as much as I can[0] but realistically very few of us are really trying.
[0] I've met with my MP, I spoke at an election hearing, I've sent countless emails to Public Safety Canada and other departments, I did a cybersecurity review of a department well below my normal bill rate. I even joined the Liberal Party. I'm getting somewhere (e.g., the 2018 budget dramatically increased funding for cybersecurity) but the problem is growing faster than the response. Just like global warming.
You mean overworked, working in dangerous conditions, constantly pushed beyond our limits because the companies and society as well "depend on us"?
> And if you want to understand how they slept at night sweeping global warming under the rug look no further than our own corporations that are resisting regulation at every turn.
Probably wouldn't have commented on this if you hadn't used past tense. Today all this seems obvious. But since you do, -let me tell you that most of us haven't heard a thing about global warming until "An inconvenient truth" or about that time.
Pretending oil engineers kept this under the rug is a bit disingenuous.
As for our role in shaping the surveillance state, -that is a bit worse: we now know. Luckily we are already seeing resistance and I urge everyone to join in: do talk about it at work, do talk to politicians, try to influence decisions where you work.