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My thoughts on this hasn't changed: https://paradite.com/2018/11/06/extinction-is-natural-so-is-global-warming/ https://paradite.com/2018/11/06/extinction-is-na

• Synaesthesia 4y ago
  Well unfortunately we may be headed for a situation where the world is unliveable forany people, and we don't have a way to colonise another planet. We're all stuck on earth.
• jarek83 4y ago
  That's exactly what my thoughts are about all the drama. I believe also that we're too small in what we do to actually have any meaningful impact on what the planet is going to look like. The planet will just fart and we're gone, but she we'll do just fine.
• giraffe_lady 4y ago
  This just completely and naively sidesteps the issue though? "Save the earth" or whatever is obviously a simplification and a euphemism, a marketing approach not a moral necessity. What we're obligated to prevent is avoidable human death and suffering on a massive scale. It is the lives that matter not the origin of the threat. And it's not a simple dichotomy between total extinction and we're all fine. A plausible scenario is that hundreds of millions of people who are living right now will die preventably, and those with the most resources, including fossil fuel use, will be able to ride it out at their expense. We have obligations going beyond merely weakening the mechanisms of climate change; we must also address its consequences now and in the near future.
  • paradite 4y ago
    Yes, we are in agreement. Your points and my post are not mutually exclusive. Just looking at things from different perspectives.