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C Mac's avatar

While I love your history lessons and appreciate your perspective I have to part ways with you here. Climate change is more than just an annoyance to be adapted to. Also, we ARE the only creatures on this fragile planet, or ever to occupy this planet, that spews waste and CO2 into that atmosphere at rates that are simply not sustainable. Our problems are truly man-made. But I'll grant you this and to quote George Carlin "when we are done earth will be just fine, its going to shake us off like a bad case of fleas"

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quote: So if you're worried about climate change, more power to you. Cut as much carbon as you can from your lifestyle. Any progress you make will be appreciated.

First I agree we will need to adapt- but we can also ameliorate! We proved humans CAN fix human caused global issues- example the so-called Ozone Hole. The main causes of ozone depletion and the ozone hole are manufactured chemicals, especially manufactured halocarbon refrigerants, solvents, propellants, and foam-blowing agents (chlorofluorocarbons). Global action banned these chemicals in 1989. From a Wikipedia entry, "Ozone levels stabilized by the mid-1990s and began to recover in the 2000s, as the shifting of the jet stream in the southern hemisphere towards the south pole has stopped and might even be reversing.[8] Recovery is projected to continue over the next century, and the ozone hole was expected to reach pre-1980 levels by around 2075. In 2019, NASA reported that the ozone hole was the smallest ever since it was first discovered in 1982."

Yes individuals CAN make a difference but individual actions are a drop in the bucket and can quickly frustrate a dedicated person when a societal problem to be solved is made to appear as one of solely individual responsibility.

think it ludicrous to compare natural phenomenon such as cyanobacteria to actual human action. With regards to climate change, we essentially KNOW the causes- for which some people are getting vastly wealthy continuing the same path. Tossing out arbitrary dates like year 1000, or year 10000 are red herrings. And we don't need to go back to 1750. Just go back to approximately the late 1880s and the start of the industrial revolution with the advent of widespread fossil fuels. The "hockey stick" is still valid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:T_comp_61-90.pdf

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