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> From a quality and sustainability of human life, these were terrible times. Unchecked, climate change will ALSO lead to terrible times for humans. Just becau
by kemitche 5y ago
> From a quality and sustainability of human life, these were terrible times.
Unchecked, climate change will ALSO lead to terrible times for humans. Just because it's not immediately impactful, does not make it ignorable.
From that perspective, it's arguable that our options are "Some amount of near-term lowering of quality of life" or "A large amount of long-term, in the future, loss of quality of life." Continuing to burn the levels of fossil fuels we currently do is borrowing against a debt that may be literally impossible to repay.
- xyzelement 5y agoI think you're saying essentially the same thing as the last paragraph of my post, so not sure why there's an argument. But sure, there's a long run place we want to get to. Today, we're not at that place and we're depending on fossil fuels. So why are we vilifying them and the companies that provide them? Sounds like we should simply work on replacements, like nuclear.