It is tempting to see climate change as a fever that rids earth of the infection with an industrial civilization. And while that is technically true, I don't think it is functionally true. We could have switched to solar thermal in 1950 and may have gone extinct much later.
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An immune response is an adaptation to a threat that happened enough times to allow a population of organisms to evolve a defense. A novel disease usually just kills the organism. We are the first industrial civilization that our single biosphere is being confronted with.
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Oh, I am not worried about life itself. We are just going to take off most of the mammals and amphibians and a substantial subset of all eucaryotes off the table. Life will go on just fine.
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I don't think that we are literally responsible. Our civilization is a vast and very complicated machine that tumbles down into a ravine while everybody pushes frantically on all the buttons they can reach. Are you familiar with this thought: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ …
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Who is "we"? There is a "we" (which you are in) that anticipated effects of global warming more than a century ago. The "we" that runs energy companies understood it in the 1970ies. The public "we" begins to understand it now. None of the "we"s seems to have much agency about it.
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Who do you speak for? 7.5 Billion humans? What alliance do you have in mind, and against what or whom?
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