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by 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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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.

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.