My maternal grandmother lived to be 96. My paternal grandmother is still alive and will be 100 this year. Her mother, my great grandmother, lived to be 102. Both my parents are still alive and in decent health in their mid 70s. Baring any severe accidents, I feel like I’m going to live into my late 90s, which I’m not thrilled about. My soon to be 100 grandma has been ready to die for a decade. Her husband died in 1992. All her friends are dead. One of her children is dead. Some of the children of her friends are already dead. She is very healthy and lives comfortably with my aunt and uncle, but she’s lonely just the same, and I feel bad for her. Nothing much makes her happy anymore. I know people wish for a long, healthy life, but the idea of outliving everyone you love seems miserable.
Every time I see a climate change sea level rise projection.
I wouldn’t worry about that. 20 years ago it was predicted by the “experts” that Miami would be under water a decade ago. Nothing has changed.
Not the real experts, but “experts”. Meanwhile projections by the real experts for lots of other things have been too conservative. But it’s okay, Miami isn’t quite underwater yet. Those king tides though…I wouldn’t live there at this point, the writing is on the wall.
When I was a kid, they said entire California would end up in the sea within a few years, since it’s on a earthquake fault line.
That was 1990. :)
Still don’t understand how people continue to “trust” the people who have a long history of predictions that never occurred. It always reminds me of a guy who pays to get “the special picks” for an NFL game. And for years the special picks guy hasn’t ever won a NFL bet
People trust it because scientists make a model. They don’t think about that the model makes many assumptions and if any assumption is wrong, it fails.
