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This is good news for climate action. The less predictable climate change costs are, the more likely it is that the ones holding the reigns of power will act. I
by mustafa_pasi 5y ago
This is good news for climate action. The less predictable climate change costs are, the more likely it is that the ones holding the reigns of power will act. If it was entirely easy to predict that such and such places were doomed, then these people would just divest from those regions and leave them to their doom.
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- deregulateMed 5y agoWas thinking this yesterday, hopefully this is a wakeup call for moderates.
- bairrd 5y agoPeople are very quick to cry "someone should do something" when these extreme events happen. You offer the same people something, in the grand scheme of things fairly moderate like the Green New Deal, and they calcify back to their party affiliations. We're so doomed.
- II2II 5y agoDon't worry. There will be mass migrations of people as oceans and deserts encroach upon inhabited areas. There will be wars over access to fresh water and agricultural land. Yet once mother nature has gotten humanity's behaviour in check, the hairless ape will persist. (This response is not intended to taken literally. My point is that we will survive, though the process of adaptation may be painful and we may not like what we may not enjoy what we are adapting to.)
- XorNot 5y ago"we" in human terms doesn't mean "you". It also doesn't even mean "Americans" as a collective - whom the pandemic shows are not that concerned about dead Americans citizens when their isn't a country to bomb in response.
- 6f8986c3 5y agoThe green new deal does jack and shit about climate change.