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NickB79

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11. That's a wonderful sentiment

Reply to braddy (Reply #10)

Wed Aug 15, 2018, 10:44 AM

Aug 2018

But totally detached from reality. We're entering the triage phase of climate change, where you can't save everyone anymore.

I'm sorry, but you don't seem to understand either the severity or the imminent threat that climate change poses to the entire globe, and I simply don't have the energy to explain it to you at this time.

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"Heat: the next big inequality issue" [View all] suffragette Aug 2018 OP

Just produce lots of cheap electricity and we can all be cool in summer and warm in winter. braddy Aug 2018 #1

I think it's going to take a lot more than that. Did you read the article? suffragette Aug 2018 #2

Air conditioning and heaters can save countless lives of all races and could even before global braddy Aug 2018 #5

Of course. But by preceding your sentence with "just" you seemed to minimize the full impact of suffragette Aug 2018 #6

Not sure what you mean. If you mean to burn more coal and fire up the nuclear sites theophilus Aug 2018 #3

We need surplus solar and wind capacity for carbon capture NickB79 Aug 2018 #7

We can save the lives of the people mentioned or let them die. braddy Aug 2018 #8

More will die if we don't reduce carbon emissions immediately NickB79 Aug 2018 #9

I don't want to kill them, I want them to have the cooling and heating that they need to survive, braddy Aug 2018 #10

That's a wonderful sentiment NickB79 Aug 2018 #11

Wow. braddy Aug 2018 #12

All around the world the poor will suffer first. In fact, I theophilus Aug 2018 #4