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by dr_dshiv 2333 days ago
Bah, humbug. You still have to be nice and compromise, you can't just expect everyone to go along.

Frankly, the science isn't settled, it's such terrible rhetoric. As though science settles things that can't actually be measured until they happen.

(Ah! Did you see that? Your radicalism made me defensive and elicited my extreme response! I'm not a denier, I just find uncompromising rhetoric deeply dysfunctional)

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Cool, it doesn't matter, carbon doesn't care about your rhetorical exercises. We're heading towards an extinction event and once this realization reaches critical mass, it's going to get ugly.
>You still have to be nice and compromise

If the ship is sinking you don't have to be nice and compromise with those bailing water into the ship. You have to tie them up and throw them below deck so they don't impede the bailing. Then afterwards you have up try them for mutiny.

Climate extremists (not you, but those who take this belief 2-3x further) are a major threat to modern civ. Who else fervently believes that killing off 50% of people on Earth and completely overturning the modern political-economic system is a better alternative than the status quo?
You're conflating ecofascism with activists who know that neoliberal tinkering with carbon taxes is a recipe for failure.