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Whatever. I am sick to the back teeth of "the sky is falling!" rhetoric. I refuse to live in mortal fear for the future of humanity. The climate will change,
by igravious 12y ago
Whatever.
I am sick to the back teeth of "the sky is falling!" rhetoric.
I refuse to live in mortal fear for the future of humanity.
The climate will change, big deal, we'll adapt -- the range of habitats humans inhabit far exceeds the variation in climate that individual habitats will experience.
On the list of things to worry about climate change should be way down. But wow, you're so vocal -- because you feel that it is an existential threat. Newsflash, it ain't.
Homelessness is a bigger problem. Ditto poverty and starvation. I _welcome_ the push back against the drumbeats and rhetoric and hope climate change disappears off the political agenda entirely. Some hope.
- Squarel 12y agoYou don't think homelessness/starvation/food security/water security will be affected by any future changes in climate?
- quink 12y agoIt is a bit of an existentialist threat. It's one of the possible answers to the Fermi paradox. Why haven't we met anyone? Because they boiled themselves to bits before they could interstellar space. Which, inherently, requires huge amounts of energy, possibly enough to change climates. I can't think of things more fundamental to existence or non-existence in this universe than it being the wrong temperature.