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"It's already happening"--um, you realize that "it's" been happening on this planet for millions of years, right? The climate changes, all over the world. Befo
by hash-set 10y ago
"It's already happening"--um, you realize that "it's" been happening on this planet for millions of years, right? The climate changes, all over the world. Before humans, after humans.
- partycoder 10y agoYes, but it is in our best interest to not accelerate the process, especially before we have figured out how deal with the side-effects. Among the obvious side effect --raise in temperature-- the oceans starts absorbing carbon dioxide and methane becoming more acid, acid enough to for example erode the shells of snails.
- burkaman 10y agoLots of natural processes are bad for humans. Evolution, extinctions, forest fires, floods, droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes, erosion, etc. All of these things happened before humans, and we still would sometimes like to stop them so that there is no "after humans". We don't need to save the planet, the planet will be fine, we need to save ourselves.