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The way to visualize this is that the truck is instead a hundred-mile long train whose engine is in the back and we are all on it in different cars. The front

The way to visualize this is that the truck is instead a hundred-mile long train whose engine is in the back and we are all on it in different cars. The front of the train has already hit the pole. Cars nearest the front are already crumpling, killing thousands and leading millions to migrate farther back into the train. Meanwhile, those of us fortunate enough to be in cars farther down the line are starting to get cynical about doomsaying because when we look around us, all of our cars seem mostly fine. Sure, maybe we hear a little rattling (food prices, heat waves, more hurricanes every year), but that's just random chance, right? And, sure, maybe it seems like more and more people keep showing up from cars closer to the front with the luggage and settling into our cars, which are—if we're totally honest—starting to get a little crowded. But the train is fine, right? We look out the window and the scenery is still trundling by just fine so there's no reason to stop the engine, right?

southernplaces7 4y ago
>The front of the train has already hit the pole. Cars nearest the front are already crumpling, killing thousands and leading millions to migrate farther back into the train. Bearing in mind that extreme weather events have been killing people in large numbers since there have been people to kill in the world, please name at least one specific event or group of weather events that have unambiguously killed thousands of people as a result of man-made climate change. I'm honestly curious about what they might be, because I've seen many (in my mind partially dishonest) narratives in which a hurricane occurs, as hurricanes have occurred since the length of human civilization, and it's called a man-made climate change even despite a lack of concrete distinction.
- munificent 4y ago
  > name at least one specific event or group of weather events that have unambiguously killed thousands of people as a result of man-made climate change Name at least one person who was unambiguously killed by smoking.

southernplaces7 4y ago

>The front of the train has already hit the pole. Cars nearest the front are already crumpling, killing thousands and leading millions to migrate farther back into the train. Bearing in mind that extreme weather events have been killing people in large numbers since there have been people to kill in the world, please name at least one specific event or group of weather events that have unambiguously killed thousands of people as a result of man-made climate change. I'm honestly curious about what they might be, because I've seen many (in my mind partially dishonest) narratives in which a hurricane occurs, as hurricanes have occurred since the length of human civilization, and it's called a man-made climate change even despite a lack of concrete distinction.

munificent 4y ago
> name at least one specific event or group of weather events that have unambiguously killed thousands of people as a result of man-made climate change Name at least one person who was unambiguously killed by smoking.