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The argument here is that the climate crisis is bigger than a few endangered species. The other side of it, though, is that if you're destroying important chunk
by sp332 5y ago
The argument here is that the climate crisis is bigger than a few endangered species. The other side of it, though, is that if you're destroying important chunks of the environment, how much of it are you really saving? There are other ways to do green power generation than this one hydro project. Maybe it's really not worth smashing though all these endangered species' habitats.
- kuhewa 5y agoIt's a worthwhile topic for discussion, and you got the point across succinctly, I feel like you'd be doing the author a solid if you did some copyediting
- praxulus 5y agoWe aren't trying to prevent climate change to save the environment, we're doing it to save the buildings and infrastructure we've built along coastlines, to prevent dangerous impacts to global agricultural output, and to stop tropical diseases from spreading further from the tropics. Plenty of wildlife will also benefit if we limit/stop anthropogenic climate change, but that's just an added bonus. The threat they face isn't what makes climate change a crisis.
- karmakaze 5y agoI'd be concerned that a several degree change in ocean temperatures (especially in shallows) could have a significant impact on large parts of our ecosystem.