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by NeedMoreTea 2589 days ago
Well now, you say that.

Do you really think the most skeptical business owners and politicians in the US are going to keep ignoring it and emitting when it's their business, family, state or home that's impacted?

I don't know what it is, I don't know when it will be, but there will be a Pearl Harbor equivalent moment. After which inaction will be as impossible as action today. The moment the crash is apparent and inevitable.

By then it'll cost a fuck load more, and have far harder impacts on everyone's economy and lifestyle, but unless it turns out to be a bad dream, it seems pretty damn certain. Pretty damn certainly in our lifetimes.

You don't prefer the easier option?
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giggles_giggles 2589 days ago
My understanding of the situation is that there is enough damage already done that a significant portion of the population, if not all of it, will be dead in the next half century, regardless of what's done. Didn't you see the new data from Mauna Loa last week? Plus there's the methane runaway theory, and the oceans are desalinating at an exponential rate due to the ever-accelerating glacial melt that is causing a feedback loop.

We go extinct no matter what. Where's the easier option? Good luck to the plankton or whatever that succeeds us.

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planteen 2589 days ago
Can't tell if you are trolling?

I'd love to hear a credible source that says something on the lines of, "My understanding of the situation is that there is enough damage already done that a significant portion of the population, if not all of it, will be dead in the next half century, regardless of what's done."

There are crackpots on each side of the argument (skeptics versus doom). I think the truth is somewhere in the middle.

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moultano 2589 days ago
The amount of effort that the word's governments are putting into curbing carbon emissions right now rounds to 0. Once we're actually trying on any meaningful scale, then it's worth having debates about whether our politics and policies are all correctly calibrated.

Right now we're still at a stage of getting people to wake the fuck up.

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