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Can you provide evidence to this claim? How exactly are we equipped to deal with what in particular, to what extent and for how long? Such dismissive optimism
by eecc 8y ago
Can you provide evidence to this claim? How exactly are we equipped to deal with what in particular, to what extent and for how long?
Such dismissive optimism needs to be either justified or smothered, unless you forgot a /s of course
- ThomPete 8y agoCan you give me an example of a scientifically demonstrated (not just speculated) consequence that we don't know how to deal with?
- michaelchisari 8y agoMass migration and civil war.
- ThomPete 8y agoWe have that throughout history and even today and yet we are still around. So again if that is what we are talking about I really don't see what exactly I should be so worried about.
- dwaltrip 8y agoYou don't think we should try to avoid situations that will cause mass displacement and war, potentially on an unprecedented scale?
- ThomPete 8y agoYes and the best way to do that is to make poor nations richer which requires growth which will require more energy and thus more emission of CO2.
- mdpopescu 8y agoYeah, we've only been dealing with those for 10,000 years. /s
- maxxxxx 8y agoThe planet is much more crowded now and every piece of land is claimed by someone as owner. A mass migration won't be pretty. Just look at the Syria refugees and scale that up by lot.
- whatshisface 8y agoNot very well we haven't.
- whyaduck 8y agoAnd it causes misery and costs lives. Personally, I don't find "it won't be a mass extinction event" to be a convincing argument to ignore climate change.
- ThomPete 8y agoWho is talking about ignoring it?
- flukus 8y agoYou seem to think the solution is to make things worse: > Yes and the best way to do that is to make poor nations richer which requires growth which will require more energy and thus more emission of CO2 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18926331 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18926331) That's even worse than ignoring it.
- ThomPete 8y agoNo my solution is to look at both the positives and the negatives and since you or anyone else haven't been able to show a single piece of scientifically demonstrated evidence that the consequences are going to be impossible for us to deal with then I choose to prioritize poor nations chance to grow more wealth over unproven, unscientific and hysterical speculation.