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> It’s not just a right-wing thing — the politics of climate change is grounded in the idea that the climate of the past is the best one. This seems like an ex
by qgin 2y ago
> It’s not just a right-wing thing — the politics of climate change is grounded in the idea that the climate of the past is the best one.
This seems like an extremely wild take on climate change.
- xnx 2y agoIndeed. I guess I'm just foolishly nostalgic for a period 50 years ago when animal populations were double what they are now. https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/living-planet-report-2018 https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/living-planet-report-2018
- RajT88 2y agoI mean, it's both true in a sense (nobody can predict the future; how can you know we're not accidentally going to create paradise on earth with all that CO2 and methane?), but also a fairly pithy insight. With detailed records of the past via ice cores, today's climate is unprecedented. We're reasonably certain climate change is a bad thing. Very thinky and educated people have spent a long time looking into it. Oh look! Here comes a columnist who has observed that all those scientists can't predict the future! Checkmate, nerds!!!