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The basic facts are: 1. The earth is warming rapidly. 2. Human CO2 emissions are a primary cause. 3. There will be very significant impacts across the world
by dwaltrip 7y ago
The basic facts are:
1. The earth is warming rapidly.
2. Human CO2 emissions are a primary cause.
3. There will be very significant impacts across the world this century if we don't take serious action. The lives of hundreds of millions of people (if not more) will be radically altered.
4. We have the ability and responsibility to take action and significantly reduce and mitigate future damage.
These points seem pretty non-negotiable to me.
- pzone 7y ago(3) is certainly debatable. If you read the actual contents of the IPCC forecasts it doesn't seem anything close to the end of the world. We're not turning the planet into Venus and we're not going to have to abandon Manhattan. Given a realistic climate change cost assessment, the >90 trillion dollar proposals like the Green New Deal can certainly come out looking like a bad deal.
- dwaltrip 7y agoBy itself, a 6 foot increase in sea-level would affect hundreds of millions of people. I believe that is on the high-end of predictions for 2100 if we continue to fail to take serious action, so yes, it may not be that bad. But it's just one example. We can also look at the more modest predictions of a 2 to 3 foot sea-level increase. That would still throw the lives of dozens of millions of people into complete chaos. Not to mention the disruption to the economic systems in these coastal areas, and those that flow through those areas. And this isn't even discussing the actual temperature increases, agricultural issues, floods / droughts, and so on.