I also have in mind a very bad analogy between pawns on the board and carbon dioxide particles, vs. pawns on the other side that represent radiation from the sun. I have not figured out yet how oceans fit in or reflecting the other side's pawns in the opposite direction (probably because it is a very bad analogy).
How does chess playing contribute to global warming or help solve it?
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This has to be a joke.
@Mr_Someone_7 you have to lower you expectations in this woke age. Instead of being concerned of whether or not babies will be able to live in the womb you have to stress the importance of chess’s impact on “global warming”. Btw, global warming isn’t a thing anymore. It’s now called “climate change” because they can’t decide if it’s global cooling or global warming.
OK THIS HAS GONE TOO FAR
bruh
ChesswithNickolay wrote:
mrfreezyiceboy wrote:
bruh
lol did you change your username?
no i got banned on my old account a month ago breh how haven't you heard already lol
ChesswithNickolay wrote:
btw 2100 is over rated i just looked at your games and ur opponent played trash
well i mean the only way to win a game sub-master level is if one of the players plays horribly lol
Chr0mePl8edSt0vePipe wrote:
@Mr_Someone_7 you have to lower you expectations in this woke age. Instead of being concerned of whether or not babies will be able to live in the womb you have to stress the importance of chess’s impact on “global warming”. Btw, global warming isn’t a thing anymore. It’s now called “climate change” because they can’t decide if it’s global cooling or global warming.
That is just utterly wrong. The world is doubless warming on average, and the term "climate change" refers to various effects of that, such as worse droughts in some places, worse floods in other places, and temporary cooling in some places due to all the cold water that flows out of the ice as it melts.
Mr_Someone_7 wrote:
This has to be a joke.
It's absolutely not a joke. Consider since 1900 the world's population has grown by many billions, the amount of wild land has decreased drastically, the carbon dioxide has gone from something like 220 up to 440, and the average global temperature has risen ... If it is to be solved at all, we must come to some agreement that all of us will have to help, including chess players. Our politicians and our CEOs are not going to do it themselves without a large cooperative effort. This includes chess players helping however possible.
So literally every hobby/sport makes us a "bad person" because we are "supporting" global warming?
ok, yes chess playing contributes to a little bit of global warming, but that's the least of our problems. there are countless other things that contribute way more to global warming than chess
ChesswithNickolay wrote:
Simple answer, it doesn't.
Simpler: It does
Aron_08 wrote:
So literally every hobby/sport makes us a "bad person" because we are "supporting" global warming?
Definitely not what I meant to say. All people have their lives to live, including doing hobbies and sports, but what I am looking to contribute is a message that supporting the planet can be a positive part of anyone's life. I have done a lot of chess and traveled more than necessary as so many people do - and recently I have felt that I can start contributing more to the ecological effort.
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December_TwentyNine wrote:
Global warming is a hoax. It's a Ponzi scheme for politicians to get your money. Look at the United States, with their so-called 4 trillion "infrastructure" bill. No. More like "money laundering" bill. Don't fall for it. Just the Private Western Central Bank and the Deep State out to trick you.
Not a hoax; you're disconnected from reality if you think our planet isn't real. (Politicians get money from political donations or else corruption. If they can be corrupt about environmental efforts, they can be corrupt about everything else as well.) Nothing to do with your conspiracy theory. Maybe you can make a little more sense if you start trying to explain that our planet isn't real - want to give it a try?
batgirl wrote:
Just living contributes to global warming - which is a real thing.
My ax to grind was partly triggered by few documentaries on netflix 
Better water management, better soil management, and more respect for wild places - one has david attenborough and one has matt damon!
Aron_08 wrote:
So literally every hobby/sport makes us a "bad person" because we are "supporting" global warming?
That's definitely the question! Why doesn't every hobby contribute to global warming? Name a bunch of hobbies and then consider whether they contribute to carbon emissions. Consider whether more climate-positive or ecosystem-positive hobbies might be invented. Did I say it makes anyone a bad person? To shame ourselves or others is independent of a factual, logical, scientifically valid consideration of how our time might be used differently. I'm not sure how to categorize the analysis. I might be missing some approaches about cost-benefit analyis, business analysis, life coaching, etc. It's definitely a multi-faceted issue.
I think it is pretty easy to think of how chess playing contributes to global warming:
- Running computers
- Results in people traveling
- Distracts people from fixing problems like suboptimal water treatment and agriculture and voting for political candidates who will lead us out of global warming disaster
But it is more difficult to compare the activity of playing chess to a non-chess scenario. There are many alternative courses of action a chess player might take besides playing chess, some better, and some worse:
Better: Just sit quietly with computer off and meditate or write poetry or play a guitar and enjoy life, not traveling to play chess
Worse: procreation, flying into outer space without sequestering carbon dioxide in outer space, contributing to military-industrial complex, etc
2050 or bust!