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Plenty of people speak it out loud. But getting billions of people across numerous cultures to collectively give up what they consider basic comforts is not go
by rsyring 3y ago
Plenty of people speak it out loud. But getting billions of people across numerous cultures to collectively give up what they consider basic comforts is not going to happen. It goes against basic human nature. You can try to fight that, but you will lose. The planet will die off first.
In light of that, it seems wise to me to try and get other plans in place to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
- vlowther 3y ago> The planet will die off first. Definitely not. It may go through a bottleneck in which humanity has to adapt or die (not for the first time, I might add), but (if anything) after the climate has stabilized and life has adapted it will be more fecund than anything -- all those new shallow seas will be totally awesome biomes.
- moufestaphio 3y agoAs George Carlin once said: "The planet is fine, the people are fucked"
- titzer 3y agoYep. Just like your face will be hairier if you were to pluck every single one of your eyebrow follicles but stop shaving your beard. It will take millions of years to recover from the biodiversity loss we've already put into motion. Hundreds of thousands, millions of species that just don't exist anymore. The intricate relationships from parasitism to symbiosis and everything in between, a vastly complex machine we just stomp on, cut up, blow holes in. Yep. That machine will be fine, shame about those eyebrows though.