It doesn’t feel similar to me, so far it seems like it’s a known problem and everything has been working ok-ish to prevent it from getting worse - last time it seemed like only very few people were ringing alarm bells and no one cared to listen
Well, it's more severe now and as you pointed out yourself, it's becoming increasingly common. Not to mention a shift to renewables (despite some developing countries continuing to rely on oil), which may add increasing pressure.
According to the study, it's, at most, 5 percentage points of the population over the last ~2 decades suffering from this. 5% is a lot of people, but it's hardly an overwhelming effect, is likely driven by other well studied factors like economic stress.
Almost everything that happens today is unprecedented in 'affecting this many people'. It's probably more informative to ask whether it is affecting a larger percentage of people exposed to it than previous examples- and I don't know the answer to that, but I suspect it isn't.
It's almost as if there happened some event of global proportions less than 2 weeks ago that was perhaps in great measure directly caused by this phenomenon?
True. And it does happen. But I don't think it happens at the scale the post I replied to seems to suggest. I hear about it sometimes, but not so often that it would be an endemic thing that has to be assumed to be the default in 2023.
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