I don't need smart people to tell me something. I experience climate change right on my doorstep, for example in my garden where I grow vegetables. Yes, I am someone who harvests sun-ripened strawberries and tomatoes on the bush and not just from canned foods.
The Earth's climate has been changing since the planet first had an atmosphere. Only an idiot would argue with that. 11,000 years ago large portions of the northern hemisphere were under sheets of ice. Germany in fact. My home also. That is a nano-second in the life of the planet. What caused the earth to heat up and shed the ice then? Surely you won't blame humans for that? Let's go back to that climate. You can ski every day.
When everyone really knows this, it will be too late to take action against it. Sure, the universe doesn't mind that much, people are just a tiny episode in infinity. There were also dinosaurs and a meteorite, and at some point it started all over again. We will not know whether this knowledge will be a consolation for our great-grandchildren.
I see several problems with that statement:
Who is the actual "climate denier" here? According to your logic, the climate never changed prior to "westerners" burning oil to improve their standard of living. Because if the climate has flip-flopped thousands of times in the last 4 billion years, what caused it? Certainly it wasn't the burning of fossil fuels in industrial amounts. You have your head so far in the sand, that you can't make a rational argument. It is only fear. Fear without an actual solution that will work. People running around screaming, "the sky is falling, the sky is falling". Greta needs to get a bicycle to cut her carbon footprint. I wonder if riding bicycles would protect us from COVID?
If you really want to save the world, why not push to use EXISTING technology such as nuclear? That would give us centuries to raise our coastal cities or move them inland. The positive effect of "global warming" is that it increases the prime food growing zones around the world and that supports a larger population since you seem to be OK with that also.
Except they'll have no water to grow crops with.
Water is another resource that many people believe to be perpetual, as we have not run-out yet and we have been able to temporarily resolve water shortage issues through technological solutions, such as the California aqueduct. As a scary headline: "The Colorado River is facing an alarming water shortage for the first time ever". This article is dated May 28, 2021, but this concern has been known (and ignored) for decades, so it is not new news. I refer back to my prior post, that the solution to these types of resource concerns is not playing musical chairs with resources, but population control.
Spot on. Moke. Bill Burr and I both agree with you.
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