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Flooding, storms, drought, infertile land and so on. Death have gone way down not up

• TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
  Yeah, 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.