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by suture 4y ago
Oh definitely. But it seems to me that it is obvious that increases in CO2 on a massive, rapid scale will necessitate climatic changes (not necessarily bad) as the system finds a new equilibrium. This may in turn cause massive disruptions
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by suture 4y ago
Like, wonder of wonders, by killing people and pouring their blood on a rock, the Mayans were successful, fantastic, amazing, keeping the sun moving across the sky!!! The next time I teach correlation/causation I’m using this as my g
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by suture 4y ago
I don’t watch television news or any television news program or talk show. I don’t listen to radio news or radio talk shows either. I don’t read the news as such. I will read comments that people write on this site and some others but I
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by suture 4y ago
Thank you for the illumination. Is it correct to say that CO2 causes an increase in temperature provided all else remains the same? I realize that not else will remain the same but it was my understanding that increases in CO2 have a heat
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by suture 4y ago
I haven’t studied the issue so my opinion doesn’t matter. It seems to me that there will need to be far fewer people in the future in order to have a planet worth living on. I think all policies not designed to ensure this outcome will fai
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by suture 4y ago
I did no such thing. Increasing carbon dioxide, keeping all else equal, traps more heat. This isn’t disputable. Hence my refusal to say otherwise can’t possibly be cognitive dissonance. It might be a good thing to increase CO2. It might
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by suture 4y ago
I wasn’t talking about policy. I was referring to the phenomenon of people denying what is obvious and beyond scientific dispute. You are referring to a different group of extremists. And by extremist I mean a person for whom the cause (
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by suture 4y ago
I’ve lived in Germany for a while and grew up in Central America (though in an American colony). From my perspective the U.S is in a state of imperial decline. The republic is indeed failing. In fact, I think it’s dead but most people ju
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by suture 4y ago
I think your understanding of what a society means and entails is badly out of whack with reality. Living in a society entails curbs on “freedoms”. People in every society are subjected to the norms, ideals, and views of that society. Th
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by suture 4y ago
I didn’t impeach anyone’s character. Me, I tend toward nihilism. I believe the only outcome is going to be massive political disruptions. I think things must get much worse before anything meaningful will be done. Hence my vote for Trum
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by suture 4y ago
It is, I believe, beyond dispute that CO2 has heat trapping effects. All else remaining the same, increasing CO2 increases the heat. That at another time there was higher CO2 levels with lower heat merely means that not all else remained
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by suture 4y ago
I suggest that your feeling of being attacked is more imagined than real. The questions are: 1. Is the climate being changed by human activity and rapidly so? 2. What should one do with this knowledge if the answer to 1 is yes? Perhaps y
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by suture 4y ago
Life today evolved over time and adapted to the changes of the planet. Present day life is not adapted to living on the planet as it was millions of years ago. Rapidly increasing the heat of the planet and rapidly increasing the amount of
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by suture 4y ago
Hospitable for which biological organisms? The issue is not that the planet is going to be destroyed. The issue is that the current political systems and human organization of the world is going to be destroyed (or greatly disrupted) in a
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by suture 4y ago
I agree with what you said but it seems this graph alone should be enough to convince people there is a problem. The heat trapping effects of CO2 are well known and beyond dispute, right? Forgetting all other evidence, isn’t the fact of t
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by suture 4y ago
In the U.S. (don’t know about other countries) the issue got tied to politics and religion. Some peoples’ identities and beliefs are zealously tied to denialism. A refutation of their beliefs in this area is an attack on them personally. S
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by suture 4y ago
How has progress been stopped dead in its tracks by wokeism? The social/cultural backlash clearly refers to a backlash against technological progress. If anything one could make an argument that the current anti-vax/anti-science
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by suture 4y ago
I try to give a generous interpretation to what people are saying but I just don’t see how your statements can be taken as anything other than derogatory to progressives. You make the baseless claim that progressive views are well known bec
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by suture 4y ago
In the sense that outside the United States by and large it is center-right. What is considered ‘left’ in the United States is often times a right leaning view in other countries. The politics of the U.S. have shifted very much to the rig
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by suture 4y ago
That’s not my point. Bringing up how conservatives are or how any other group is would not be germane to the article without giving evidence that it is appropriate. By asserting that progressives are a certain way and inserting this into
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by suture 4y ago
There is one line in the article that mentions progressive commentary. The article is talking about how CNN leadership wants to get back to “hard news” and less commentary. The comments about how “progressives” are this or that is weird a
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by suture 4y ago
I have hard believing this given your statements: I suspect the execs will try to tone it down but progressives aren't known for wanting to be neutral or muted about their causes. Activism and "everything is political" are f
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by suture 4y ago
This is very weird comment. You are talking about progressives as if this is the only large grouping that is vocal or active. Insert conservatives, environmentalists, fundamentalists, jihadists, etc. and the statements remain equally vali
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by suture 4y ago
Thanks for your well stated response. I agree with the sentiments and beliefs. Nicely put.
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by suture 4y ago
Too many people are going to college but now that colleges are run like a business this isn’t going to change. With declining state support we need more clients and the tuition money they bring.
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by suture 4y ago
Politically speaking the best course of action for Biden is to say that the repayment pause will continue until Congress passes comprehensive legislation addressing higher education funding and reforms.
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by suture 4y ago
Correct. And this is why, at the population levels of the world, the future is bleak in terms of the environment. Our way of life at the current population levels is not sustainable.
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by suture 4y ago
A large percent of students never get a degree. Here’s the best statistics that I could find. It talks about 6 year graduation rates but I think a large percent of those who don’t graduate within 6 years never graduate. https:/&#x2F
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by suture 4y ago
The child tax credit would be an example of ‘buying votes’ too, right? What about promises to increase milk subsidies? Or promises to keep protecting the limber industry from competition from Canada? Aren’t all such things ‘buying votes’
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by suture 4y ago
Tuition in the University of California system increased by an infinite percent from 1960 to 1980. It used to be tuition free. Had it remained tuition free it would have been cheaper and better overall for society.

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