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What caused it then? Volcanoes? please, farming, livestock and fossil fuels produce much more quantity of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide than anything else? who
by joantune 10y ago
What caused it then? Volcanoes? please, farming, livestock and fossil fuels produce much more quantity of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide than anything else? whose fault is that? fertilized plants and Cows? but who mass produces those? Humans.
And can we really take the risk of betting that it's not us?
Yet, you are fundamentally right, there are also other punctual events that contribute to it, but decisively that the major factor is us.
This is like the leaded gasoline incident in the 60s or 70s, now everyone sees how obvious it is but all of the white noise built by special interest groups that control one major party in the US makes it look like it's feasible for it not to be a thing.
It isn't
When Brian Cox talks about consensus, he is not talking about consensus among the average Joe or Jane, he is talking about the scientific community, the ones that are experts in the matter.