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It's the same response to climate change. Talk shit until its too late.

• robomartin 7y ago
  The problem with climate change is that it has been politicized so far that both sides are wrong and both sides are making stuff up to support their religion. In this case I think it might be a very weird scenario where the battling factions are causing slow action, which might lead to the right approach in the long term. When you have a situation where scientists can't speak the truth for fear of losing their jobs, grants, standing, etc. nothing good comes out of it. The real story goes something like this: Human-aided atmospheric CO2 accumulation is very real and, yes, it is a problem. And we can't do a thing about it because the natural rate of change for atmospheric CO2 is in the order of 100 ppm per 50,000 years if, and only if, all of humanity, our toys and technology left the planet at once. No partial measure (renewable energy, no planes|cars|trains, carbon capture, etc.) can improve the rate of change when the baseline is 100 ppm per 50,000 years if humanity left the planet. This is based on and supported by 800,000 years of ice core atmospheric data that tells us how the atmosphere behaved before humanity gained the ability to make a difference. The data makes it impossible to claim we can fix it, because the amount of energy and resources needed to affect planetary-scale changes at a rate of change 1,000 times that corresponding humanity leaving the planet is so massively large it would likely kill all life on this planet. We can't fix it. But we can make better choices and clean-up our act. The only way that happens is if we discuss facts rather than fantasies at both ends of the scale.