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    1. Damon Linker‏Verified account @DamonLinker 12 Jun 2019

      Damon Linker Retweeted Walter Shapiro

      This is the age of full-spectrum political hype, with everyone crying wolf, day and night. Don’t be surprised when voters tune everyone out.https://twitter.com/MrWalterShapiro/status/1138541701340028931 …

      Damon Linker added,

      Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro
      This is the Jean-Paul Sartre campaign. Buttigieg this morning: climate change is "an existential threat." Biden this afternoon: Trump is an "existential threat." Inslee press release: "climate crisis as an existential threat." Maybe I should just read "Being and Nothingness."
      31 replies 54 retweets 313 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2019
      Replying to @DamonLinker

      According to consensus science, climate really is an existential threat, at least for our children and grandchildren.

      6 replies 2 retweets 58 likes
    3. Damon Linker‏Verified account @DamonLinker 12 Jun 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      An existential threat threatens existence. Human beings are not on the verge of going extinct in the next half century and there is and could be no science to “prove” otherwise.

      8 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    4. David A. Bell‏ @DavidAvromBell 12 Jun 2019
      Replying to @DamonLinker @HeerJeet

      How about “catastrophic threat”?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Damon Linker‏Verified account @DamonLinker 12 Jun 2019
      Replying to @DavidAvromBell @HeerJeet

      That’s better. But I don’t see why we need to over-amped adjectives. It’s politics as an ad campaign. We need scientifically grounded predictions and talk of costs/benefits of acting/not acting. If that doesn’t convince people, rhetorically screaming OMG won’t do it either.

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    6. David A. Bell‏ @DavidAvromBell 12 Jun 2019
      Replying to @DamonLinker @HeerJeet

      To my mind, the important thing is to recognize the degree of uncertainty. Maybe there is only a 5% chance of the worst-case Wallace-Wells scenario coming to pass. But is even that a risk we can accept with our children’s future?

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2019
      Replying to @DavidAvromBell @DamonLinker

      Exactly so. The worst-case-scenario isn't likely but it's possible and we have to factor it in. To not factor it in is irresponsible. The same with other threats like nuclear war.

      8:24 AM - 12 Jun 2019
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        1. eli friedmann‏ @eligit 12 Jun 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DavidAvromBell @DamonLinker

          I honestly think those who are not sounding full on alarm bells have not educated themselves on the matter. Actually READ Wallace Wells book all the way through. READ Elizabeth Kolbert. And ask yourself "do these people know more about the subject than I do?"

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        1. Not followed by anyone you’re following‏ @pedantish 12 Jun 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DavidAvromBell @DamonLinker

          And nuclear war *could* happen. Climate degradation *is* happening, and accelerating.

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