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akaNorman t1_iwxb7ai wrote

Reply to comment by cornerblockakl in US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds, but tough reliability and land use questions lie ahead by nastratin

We are ~50 years behind when we should have started and ~20 years behind when we really really needed to start aggressively putting the planet first, if anything we aren’t scared enough for what is coming.

It’s very clear that the majority of people don’t quite understand how large the change coming will be (voluntary and involuntary)

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cornerblockakl t1_iwxcarp wrote

No matter what you believe about your own super powers, you cannot predict the future. You simply can’t. And there is a whole (say it like Trump with me) HUUUGE group that believes that the real problem in the near future is population decline. The funny thing is that neither you nor they can predict the future that far out. (Roughly 30-60 years). So for Christ’s sake, just stop.

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reid0 t1_iwxeuvz wrote

It’s not a prediction to state that carbon emissions are affecting the habitability of planet Earth or that the associated and continuing temperature rises are causing big migrations of human populations.

Those are facts, proven by mountains of data that even the oil companies identified themselves back in the 70s.

Observing those trends is not predicting the future, it’s being rational about threats to our current way of life.

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cornerblockakl t1_iwxnf40 wrote

Do you not think the climate change alarmists are not presenting a doom and gloom future?

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reid0 t1_iwy97o6 wrote

If you lived in a place like The Maldives, you wouldn’t have such a glib opinion.

The reason that scientists are explaining more and more dire risks ahead for us is because we’ve wasted most of the time we had to address both the causes and the impacts of climate change.

Governments and industries around the world have been trying to postpone or avoid the work required to address climate change for upwards of 30 years, and pushing media sources to spread misleading information that minimises the likely impact and cause of climate change.

Ignoring the problem has not helped. Instead it’s given us less time to address the proven effects of carbon emissions.

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