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This because climate doomerist rhetoric gets a free pass because most people agree with the general goal to reduce our impact on the climate. I can live a long

• dale_glass 3y ago
  One scary thing that's been becoming uncomfortably evident to me lately is that a lot of things are fragile. Things like countries are very dependent on uncoded, informally agreed on standards of decency. And it takes surprisingly little to throw the system into chaos if there's a group that wants it badly enough, or the people maintaining stability relax too much, or the wrong crisis happens at the wrong time. Climate change affects many millions of people. That can easily cause mass events like famines, economical crashes, mass unemployment, war and mass migration, and those things quite easily affect countries around it and so on. So I'm not too optimistic about seeing it as a "pinky finger". The best outcome I see is something like ruining the wine harvest. Yeah, not ideal, but we can live with that. But it's unlikely to stop at that, because millions of unhappy farmers won't just sit quietly and can make a very big mess.
• __loam 3y ago
  I mean, the climate doomers kind of have a point since we're currently living through a mass extinction event that we caused.