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by mjanx123 11 days ago
A change that is going to creep in over decades, known about ahead of time, is not a crisis and not a reason to panic.

You can still today buy lands that are going to be submerged under the sea and make net profit before that happens.

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Disagree.

A self-inflicted situation that is preventable and gets increasingly bad over time with no limit to how bad it can get, is a crisis.

We're already today experiencing some consequences of that. They're going to get worse, not better. The easiest time to prevent the amount of worse they could get, is to act now.

That's why it's a crisis. We are today creating our situation 20 years in the future, which currently looks bleak.