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Climate change is an immediate problem for us, not the world. The world will continue along fine even if our civilization collapses.
by burkaman 3y ago
Climate change is an immediate problem for us, not the world. The world will continue along fine even if our civilization collapses.
- lstodd 3y ago[flagged]
- taylorconor 3y ago> No, we did not Citation needed
- maxehmookau 3y ago> It is hubris-as-a-sin to think that a) we changed it to the worse That's demonstrably untrue though and to be blind to that is to be blind to decades of well-researched climate science.
- unregistereddev 3y agoIf it is hubris-as-a-sin to think we changed the world for the worse, then it is ignorance-as-a-sin to pretend the massive quantities of fuels we burn would not have an effect on the world. We can look around us and visibly see changes humans have made to this world. It isn't hard to conjecture that these changes likely have unintended effects.
- shinryuu 3y agoWhy is it hubris? Human beings were behind the ozone hole, and we were also able to stop it.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- jakelazaroff 3y agoPlease just read this: https://xkcd.com/1732/ https://xkcd.com/1732/
- burkaman 3y agoI'm not sure this person believes the Earth is that old