I know this is satire, but having a few years of farewell-themed Arctic cruises is a legit fantastic idea. (The Antarctic has a more complicated response to climate change and we can save it for later)https://www.theonion.com/norwegian-cruise-line-introduces-now-or-never-tour-of-1847082526 …
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We're also not being honest about who will get to make the choice, which is basically billions of people in Asia who might prefer a hot industrialized life where you can blast the A/C to slightly less hot subsistence farming. You can't just tell them 'no' so we can keep Miami.
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My rosy outcome scenario for global warming is massive population shifts out of the American south and West that fix the rural skew in Senate representation, and a Florida that finally submerges just as it becomes a Republican lock.
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Final point in this rant—it's incoherent to say climate change is a crisis if you oppose good old American fission. Nuclear energy is (bright, glowing) green energy that requires no technological breakthroughs, emits no carbon, and we should be building reactors by the dozen.
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People understandably respond 'But 10 years ago, you were saying "it's the last minute" as well'. Which is because of this dishonesty.
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We're already blowing past 2C; I don't know of any politically imaginable path that stops us there.
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