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If there's 1% chance that we're all mistaken how climate works, why would building levies would be a solution to anything? It means we literally have no idea w
by yongjik 8y ago
If there's 1% chance that we're all mistaken how climate works, why would building levies would be a solution to anything? It means we literally have no idea what will happen, and there's no way to know if the levies will be high enough or if it will be needed at all. You will be wasting a trillion dollars in the off chance that (1) we don't understand climate and yet (2) the climate happens to do exactly the thing you prepared yourself for.
Meanwhile, cutting back on fossil fuel gives us real, measurable benefit in the 99% of cases, and won't even hurt us that much in the remaining 1%. Unless you think "The Earth's wind just stopped." is a possibility.
(The number is probably more like 99.9999 vs 0.0001%.)
- splintercell 8y agoThanks for at least responding to my actual argument. > It means we literally have no idea what will happen, and there's no way to know if the levies will be high enough or if it will be needed at all. I got some big problems with the climate change mitigation methods which presume anthropogenic nature. The biggest one being, we can reduce our Carbon emissions and stuff, but this solution requires EVERYONE to do it. One defection (like China or India) and it might result in everyone defecting or our solution becoming futile. On the other hand 'building levies' (which is just a way to label the actions which try to fight climate change by negating its effect, require each individual country to act in their own interest and it can be effectively pulled off.