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Forty years ago "we" could have forcibly stopped the use of fossil fuels, killing billions of people, to spare them the agony of dying at some point in the futu
by c_crank 3y ago
Forty years ago "we" could have forcibly stopped the use of fossil fuels, killing billions of people, to spare them the agony of dying at some point in the future from climate change?
- genmud 3y agoAh yes... the all or nothing school of black and white thinking appears. I'm not a climate scientist, activist or am particularly conscious about the environment, but even I know that these effects stack on each other. Had we even flattened emissions, rather than going up and to the right at a steep rate, we could have slowed the problem. As it is, we have drastically increased the amount of impact any meaningful solutions will need. My understanding of the subject is basic, but the changes we are experiencing happen slowly, then quickly and unpredictably.