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by jameslk 3366 days ago
My point was more around addressing global warming from the perspective of mitigation rather than prevention. There seems to be a lot of reports that indicate our opportunity for preventing global warming has passed or will soon pass[0][1][2]. So if that's the case, it seems like it would be pretty important to work on solutions to survive the effects of global warming instead.

0. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9988890...

1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/climate...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_climate_change#Current...

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I've been seeing studies since the release of the Inconvenient Truth claiming that the point of no return has been reached.

I don't doubt climate change, but I'm very skeptical of studies positing a slippery slope of catastrophic proportions. It's true we don't know the cascading effects of increased CO2 and methane emissions, but that doesn't mean it the unknown is apocalyptic.

And hey - maybe we won't all die!
Humanity could use some thinning out.

Unfortunately we'll take a lot of innocent fora/fauna down as well.