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- TheBlueOne0
OK, here's my take:
I'm pretty convinced there are climate change effects caused by our civilization. If you want to argue that point, fine. I think it's arguing if the earth is round or not, and quite frankly I'm not interested in wasting my time indulging in it.
As a species we've been around for about 200,000 years. Our jump to civilization started about 10,000 years ago. I work off the assumption that a big part of that drive towards civilization was a combination of general population size (hit a plateau of numbers that made agricultural and centralized authority workable) and agreeable climate to the whole agricultural experiment. If you think it's cool to play dice with those conditions that underlie the human civilization experiment, you go right ahead. I for one would like to use our wisdom, foresight and knowledge to maintain the conditions upon which our species thrives at an optimum level.
Any thing that mucks about with the climate conditions upon which allowed our civilization to flourish is of serious concern to me. If you're comfortable in sitting back and waiting to see if it's you know "really happening", well go right ahead, but don't be surprised if those conditions deterirate rapidly.
We know from the physical sciences and system theory that systems can exist at particular ranges of equilibrium for some time, but can easily slide into a radical phase transition quite quickly and at exponential rates. That seems to be the message that we're getting from the climate scientists I read. That we see some changes occurring, but by the time we really start seeing massive change, it'll be like a runaway train with massive amount of momentum and we're basically fucked. If I read one more douchetard comment like "Hey, it snowed here in Georgia today, so much for you climate eggheads and your so-called global warming!" on the internet I'll fucking scream.
Ah, but fuck it, the US is well on the path to losing it's leadership position in the world, why should this be any different.
- I agree with you on just about everything here. Even though I'm skeptical that this is earths cycle, we need to play it safetommyo
- and act wisely. It's the idea that we NEED to 'race to salvation' that concerns me when we really, in a macro scope of thistommyo
- issue, don't really understand it. It's relatively a new issue, why spend lots of resources on it, which cause other social economic problems with thistommyo
- economic problems with this sort of expediency?tommyo
- Well, I think that the speed of the problem will only increase, so we better be prepared...TheBlueOne
- The previous administration sat on their hands for 8 years about it. Where was the rush you speak of?DrBombay