| An adaptation of the "narcissist's prayer" for climate change deniers: --- Climate Change isn't happening And if it is, it isn't that bad. And if it is, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not our fault. And if it is, we didn't mean it. And if we did, you should have stopped it. --- Your comment is on line 3. > we need to allow ourselves to conceive of such things as human civilization continuing on without much fuss. There is a large difference between "conceiving of possibilities" and burying our heads in the sand. Climate Change is not a new phenomenon, we've known about it for 50 years (and the oil companies have known for longer). We have decades of research telling us that climate change will drive extreme weather. We have decades of research predicting the effects it will have on human civilization. None of this is new info. The "alternate possibilities" have been considered and disproved a long time ago. We know, without ambiguity, what's happening. |
perhaps that the effects will be different than your expectations, perhaps that human ingenuity will overcome the challenges, perhaps that some other, bigger problem will rear it’s head
- you have no mechanism left to tell. If that sounds like the narcissists prayer to you then so be it.