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Are we currently doing too little or too much about global warming? | | Is it possible to do too much about global warming?

@robinhanson

Too little | | No
45.3%
Too little | | Yes
41.5%
Too much | | No
3.1%
Too much | | Yes
10.1%

1,098 votesFinal results

8:45 AM · Sep 11, 2017

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Option 3 is logically impossible in your phrasing.

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I was really drunk when I tweeted that poll and now I'm regretting a lot

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Robin Hanson

@robinhanson

Sep 11, 2017

When your audience is irrational, you can say irrational things for rational reasons. Doesn't make them less irrational though.

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Dr. Poop Muscles, PhD

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let it be known my "too little and no" answer comes from a place that is wholly aware of the mediocre at best attitude most of the world has

Cataclismio Grossimani

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As long as there are people who believe that global warming doesn't exist then we are doing too little and we could do more.

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Who the fuck answers "Too much || No" ?

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It is technically possible to do too much about global warming. But for all real intents and purposes, no.

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Too little/yes. Too much would be what is included in the UN's Agenda 21 as well as current Geo engineering methods to alter the climate.

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Yes & yes.

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If global warming poses an actual danger (whether natural or human caused), what we're doing is 1) totally inadequate, 2) the wrong things.