California wildfires are an important, natural part of the ecosystem, but I still like to know when it's worth wearing an N95 mask and turning on my air filter to prevent that important, natural part of the ecosystem from permanently damaging my lungs.

We don't need passwords, everyone just needs to be nice to each other

The first step in getting people to care is proving there's a problem, and accurate models help with that. Not as much as actual data mind you.

Steelmanning the parent's argument. Having a better model of how fucked we are when there there's no appetite to actually do anything about is high-effort doing nothing.

But if you don't have a good model, you can't reliably identify the good ways of unfucking.