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No that's actually your argument. My argument is that we have become better and better at dealing with the potential consequences of climate change.
by ThomPete 8y ago
No that's actually your argument.
My argument is that we have become better and better at dealing with the potential consequences of climate change.
- baxtr 8y agoThat’s definitely not wrong. But at what cost?
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoCan you provide some examples where you believe we have become better at dealing with the potential consequences of climate change.
- ThomPete 8y agoFlooding, storms, drought, infertile land and so on. Death have gone way down not up
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoYeah, fair enough, those things are certainly true. I guess what some (most?) people mean when they say "the potential consequences of climate change" are those large scale, high impact, changes that we haven't yet seen. Which I guess could be considered a bit of moving the goal posts insofar as we've dealt with everything thrown at us thus far, as we'd otherwise not be here having this conversation. And I do, at times, find myself thinking things like "they've been saying [whatever] is on the brink of collapse for 40 years, and it hasn't happened yet". Yeah, tricky hey.