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Actual existential risk: nuclear war followed by nuclear winter that suddenly lowers global average temperatures by 20 degrees. Not an existential risk: a gradual 2 degree increase in global average temperatures. Politicians need to learn the difference.
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Existential risk? Maybe not, technically. But such a change will cost an enormous amount of effort, aka money, and will have humanity on the move, poor, and starving.
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Not politicians. The public. Politicians reflect the public.
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Some nuance needed here
@primalpoly . Perhaps not an existential risk in the deserts of the USA. Very imminent existential risk for coastline populations and underdeveloped countries with poorer adaption capabilities. You have to climb down from your ivory tower -
That’s the point: if it’s a localized catastrophe, it’s horrible. But it’s not a risk to the existence of humans as a whole.
End of conversation
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Lets hope we forget how to use coal and Petro by then so we all freeze
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Something that ~guarantees disaster after escalating disaster for thousands of years Vs something that has some chance of massive disaster Reasonable people can argue which is worse.
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I agree with you but curiously UN Secretary General has indeed said, "We face a direct existential threat [from climate change]."
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It is a hard difference to learn when all of the financial interests line up around not learning. I wonder if the skew suburban, and hysteria over climate change has made the DNC start to poll worse psychologically, in terms of making decisions based on fear.
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And they accuse Trump of fear-mongering.
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Do you have a crystal ball? How can you know what the repercussions will be of a 2 degree rise? How do you know it will stop at 2 degrees? How do you know it CAN stop there?
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