i mostly agree with this post and think it's disturbing that it had to be writtenhttps://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/climate-change-is-not-an-existential-risk/ …
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(i think it understates its case and 4-5 degrees of warming by 2100 is quite unlikely, but that's not as important)
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Oh, is this what you’re mad no one argued with you about? I’ll step in. The post mentions the concept of “war” only once, in a dismissive blockquote. Leaving aside the question of whether the war in Syria has anything to do with climate, the downstream political effects have...
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given plenty of reason to believe that a climate refugee crisis affecting hundreds of millions of people will carry great risk of nuclear war. A benevolent dictator of Earth might say “all of you may move to the underpopulated areas of Canada and Siberia!” But...
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well, it's not inconceivable, but there are many things that could decrease international stability that we don't normally think of as risks to the human species
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i suspect it's less likely than you think. climate change happens gradually and in a wealthier world than ours, nuclear war seems pretty unlikely, nuclear winter given nuclear war seems questionable, human extinction given nuclear winter seems pretty unlikely
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