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> I didn't say we are all going to die. But you said: > The ideology of wanting humans to not send themselves to extinction It seems pretty clear you are imp

• smolder 3y ago
  The nuance you and others are missing is that I didn't say it was a definite thing. I didn't even say it was likely. I implied that the ideology he was complaining about is made up of people who don't think we should accelerate towards extinction: not an extreme stance at all. Given even a slight, non-zero risk of us doing that, if you have the stance that we shouldn't, it's reasonable to take steps to reduce the risk. I could have been way more succinct and less sarcastic with my original comment, but it hardly seems worth the effort when replying to a post like theirs.
  • vasco 3y ago
    The stance is extreme because it's doomsday speak, of the kind only people on top of a box in the park used to say when I was a kid. Humans will be here, maybe less of us, on boats, in constant air-con personal pods, whatever, we'll figure something out. We're not going extinct any time soon unless someone decides to launch nuclear weapons.
• bradjohnson 3y ago
  >It seems pretty clear you are implying we will literally go extinct because of global warming. This is crazy. It's implying that we are sending ourselves towards extinction, just as if you were sending yourself towards obesity by continually consuming 10,000 Calories per day. What is really crazy is that there are still climate change deniers that exist in this comments section.