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by vrganj 21 days ago
Sure, the planet can't die. But the people and animals on it can.

But I have a feeling you knew what I meant and are just being deliberately obtuse.

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Sometimes we hate incorrect usage of the word "literally" as much as we hate apathy to a billion people suffering.

The Gaia hypothesis is science fiction compared to climate catastrophe, which is real.

Nope. Just opposed to climate alarmism that has simple not worked over the past 20 years. In fact it's done more harm than good.
Where do you see actual alarmism? Please have a look at the older predictions and realize that it's actually significantly worse right now than those "alarmist" models predicted.

e.g.:

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01332-8

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42143-3

The only place you find actual alarmism in are third-rate news rags.

Climate emergency: when my house floods or burns in a forest fire.

Climate alarmism: when your house floods or burns in a forest fire.

Climate hoax: when somebody in another country's house floods or burns in a forest fire.