As I wrote in response to the not really view, I’m deeply pessimistic about the future, and the hope that I appreciate here is only for slightly extending agricultural yields so that I can keep eating cheap food for a few more years. Overall, we’re all fucked. I guess I’m not allowed to celebrate one bright spot in the enclosing darkness, thanks.

[+] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There’s nothing bad whatsoever about a breakthrough discovery allowing for essentially nutritionally-complete synthetic pollen. It’s all positive, full stop. The negatives you want to emphasize are that it doesn’t also solve other related problems. I never said that it did, only that it was the most uplifting science story in a long time. I read the whole dammed article, not just the headline, and I was very happy to have it get into a lot of details.

Feel free to have your middling reaction without celebration. I’m excited to have a positive science story I can discuss with my kids, and I’m sticking to that.

[–] Artisian@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Source on positive headlines decreasing care and activism?

I see the opposite. Everyone believes systems can no longer solve any problems, and have checked out.