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Feb 4, 2021

I deeply distrust demands for the dismantling of long-standing systems and institutions that are not accompanied by detailed, deeply-researched and considered alternatives. Anyone can destroy an imperfect system. The question is, can *you* build a better one?

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Is this where the Soviet straw man stands in for European social democracy? Also climate change waits for no human system. Will we be the first species to become extinct because change wasn't 'cost effective?' 🙄

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Sea level was 400 ft lower 10,000 years ago, and it'll drop to that level again during the next ice age. If human survival depends on static sea level we're doomed anyways.

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There have been many periods in earths multi billion year history when the climate was hostile. The point is that we have moved the climate toward a hostile point that shouldn't have happened in this century or the next. Your point is?

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I think the point is this likely won't result in 'extinction,' even if it's happened faster, because humans have survived worse before.

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The point is that we are heading down a path that COULD lead there and is guaranteed to immiserate billions. That's a self-inflicted wound created by unsustainable human systems that we can choose to change. It's our responsibility to do so.