> What's wrong with extinctions? We eat a lot of animals. If you mess with this complex system in weird ways like changing the climate, it seems possible that

> What's wrong with extinctions? We eat a lot of animals. If you mess with this complex system in weird ways like changing the climate, it seems possible that some of the animals we eat will lose their happy place in the food chain. That's a reason to care and a reason to try and not dramatically and immediately shift the Earth's climate. > 1. possible benefits Some places will get more rain. They might like that. The rest of us might get a lot less rain...that would suck. Right now, people live where it rains. If it starts raining in different places...well, that's going to cause trouble. (The rain is an example. There are obviously other examples.) > 2. possible benefits and costs of so called solutions. For example introducing electric cars will increase demand for batteries and electricity. That means increased demand for coal, gas or nuclear power. What will be the effects of these? Long term, this is far far better. Even if these electric cars are powered by dirty coal. The amount of electricity used to power an electric car pollutes far, far less than a gas car per miles driven. But ideally we'd move towards wind, solar, nuclear, etc to make these options even better. If you are scared or upset at the future using solar energy and you don't know what the effects are, will you at least agree that it's likely a much better move than burning things? Your skepticism could be healthy, but I think you are too skeptical and that is damaging your ability to rationally think about our fragile Earth.