• Mickey7@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Try asking those who believe Man has a significant effect on global warming a simple question. Tell me exactly and specifically what changes you propose. And then tell me exactly and specifically what results we will see and in what time period due solely to those changes. File this under makes you feel good about yourself but accomplishes nothing but higher energy prices.

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      If our species cared about our species’ future, we would live with whatever energy generation our only habitat could environmentally tolerate/sustain, and we clearly wouldn’t have bred to the point that the planet is pushing back. Instead we STILL demand growth/metastasis. “growth or die!” Oh the delicious gallows irony. Homeostasis should have been our species’ business, but that ship has sailed.

      Humans are so self-important that we don’t even seem to care about how fragile our situation is, and we all know at some level we’re going to be our own end.

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        I’ve been calling it human exceptionalism. If we found an organism that drives 150 other species extinct a day we would do our best to eradicate it permanently, but it’s us so we ignore it.

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      Stop burning fossil fuels and engage a massive tree planting program. No, you don’t deserve your vacations, consumer goods shipped from halfway across the planet, or any of the other modern convinces invented since the Industrial Revolution. We’ve had our chance to keep those things while shifting to green methods, but we always choose the cheapest method and now we’re in the Finding Out stage.

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      4 months ago

      Stopping people like you from using oxygen would be my first proposed measure :)

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        4 months ago

        When they cannot debate with facts they threaten those who dare disagree with them

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          4 months ago

          Who’s “they”, Mikey? Be clear, Mikey.

          Your ilk doesn’t deserve a chance at discourse, because you don’t engage in honest discussion.

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            4 months ago

            Honest discussion means… you have to totally agree with my position. They are incapable of having a debate of facts and proven outcomes. You would think that if a person firmly believed in a policy that they would be glad to prove those who disagree wrong with facts.

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      4 months ago

      Try asking those who copy-paste bullshit… why are you copy-pasting bullshit?

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      4 months ago

      No more children allowed. The problem will solve itself in a hundred years and the earth can begin its millions-of-years recovery process.