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Conveniently ignoring the existential threat humanity faces from climate change. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions https://ourw
by cgrealy 7y ago
Conveniently ignoring the existential threat humanity faces from climate change.
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...
All the democracy and economic growth in the world won't matter a damn if you're starving and on fire.
- javagram 7y agoHumans have shown the ability to adapt to climate change before (Little Ice Age or even the real last Ice Age). There’s no reason to believe we won’t be able to tackle global warming. Will there be some hardship? Yes. Will it be worse than the “nasty, brutish, and short” life most people had throughout history before the 20th century? I doubt it very much.
- cgrealy 7y agoThere is every reason to believe the real cost of climate change will be in the 10s, perhaps hundreds, of millions of lives. If you want to class that as “some hardship”, that’s your prerogative.