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I‘m not sure why you are being downvoted but you are 100% correct as I have explained in detail in my top comment.

• konjin 6y ago
  Because people want easy solutions. Being told that "we have locked in enough climate change already that by 2100 industrial civilization will be impossible anywhere and by 2200 so will agriculture." is not something anyone wants to hear. If we were serious about climate change we would be spending the next 20 years under martial law building nothing but nuclear powered CO2 scrubbers and producing enough food to keep us alive. Anything else is superfluous. Or you can vote for Biden and get a vague promise that by 2050 we will be emitting as much CO2 as we were in 2000. And the less said about Trump the better. The difference in policy options in the US is like the difference between jumping out of a plane and jumping out of a plane tied to an anvil.
  • ben_w 6y ago
    Even from the outside American politics gives every impression of being closer to a reality show than to reality — but there is an outside.