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by tim333 319 days ago
I'm of the view climate change is real but not as big a deal as some people make out. A couple of reasons:

- Solar power has been growing exponentially for years and will continue for a while allowing carbon usage to be phased out and maybe carbon capture done.

- The climate has changed naturally more than most people realise and life goes on. The sea is forecast to rise 60cm or so over this century but has risen ~120m over the last 20k years which was hardly noticed. (graph from wikipedia https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Post-Gla...)

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On point 2 - notice how flat your graph is for the last 6k years?

Also, why do you think the impact of past changes on a tiny group of humans living as hunter gatherers is of any relevance to 8 billion people living in the modern world (including, for example, in massive coastal cities?)

If hunter gathers could deal with change maybe modern people with all our tech can too?