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Arammil1784 t1_iwwv7m6 wrote

'Tough queations'?

Convert or doom the human race. Seems exceedingly simple to me.

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thatc0braguy t1_iwx1mjc wrote

And that's why it'll take until 2070 to get the desired result

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Zevemty t1_iwyqn5a wrote

> Convert or doom the human race.

Even IPCC's "do nothing more than we've already done" path doesn't doom the human race. It will get expensive, and it will hurt, but climate change is not an extinction-level threat for humanity. Here's a good video on it if you don't want to read the IPCC-report yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgMdjyw8uw

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wagner56 t1_iwyr7s9 wrote

set your heat to 68 in winter get rid of your airconditioning and car and dont go on trips

YOU can start right now.

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cornerblockakl t1_iwx46n1 wrote

It’s not binary, you idiot. Stop the fear mongering.

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akaNorman t1_iwxb7ai wrote

We are ~50 years behind when we should have started and ~20 years behind when we really really needed to start aggressively putting the planet first, if anything we aren’t scared enough for what is coming.

It’s very clear that the majority of people don’t quite understand how large the change coming will be (voluntary and involuntary)

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cornerblockakl t1_iwxcarp wrote

No matter what you believe about your own super powers, you cannot predict the future. You simply can’t. And there is a whole (say it like Trump with me) HUUUGE group that believes that the real problem in the near future is population decline. The funny thing is that neither you nor they can predict the future that far out. (Roughly 30-60 years). So for Christ’s sake, just stop.

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reid0 t1_iwxeuvz wrote

It’s not a prediction to state that carbon emissions are affecting the habitability of planet Earth or that the associated and continuing temperature rises are causing big migrations of human populations.

Those are facts, proven by mountains of data that even the oil companies identified themselves back in the 70s.

Observing those trends is not predicting the future, it’s being rational about threats to our current way of life.

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cornerblockakl t1_iwxnf40 wrote

Do you not think the climate change alarmists are not presenting a doom and gloom future?

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reid0 t1_iwy97o6 wrote

If you lived in a place like The Maldives, you wouldn’t have such a glib opinion.

The reason that scientists are explaining more and more dire risks ahead for us is because we’ve wasted most of the time we had to address both the causes and the impacts of climate change.

Governments and industries around the world have been trying to postpone or avoid the work required to address climate change for upwards of 30 years, and pushing media sources to spread misleading information that minimises the likely impact and cause of climate change.

Ignoring the problem has not helped. Instead it’s given us less time to address the proven effects of carbon emissions.

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