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by photonerd 1071 days ago
What you describe there isn’t skepticism (you concede everything but then claim, somehow, that all that isn’t climate change… bizarrely).

It’s apathy.

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> you concede everything

Air/ocean pollution and environmental damage !== climate change.

Climate change is specifically about greenhouse emissions trapping the suns heat causing long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.

> It’s apathy

I am following the prescribed "action plan" for the average citizen. What would you have me do? Not everyone can be a political activist.

My point was that even in a hypothetical scenario where climate change is false (no rise in global temperatures or change in weather patterns), the damage we are doing to the earth is still enough to destroy it.