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Environment & Energy

Random Boomer

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1. I see this fallacy over and over again...

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 10:41 AM

Aug 2021

"We must act now to avert climate change!"

That phrasing implies this is something we avert, when the stark truth is that things are going to get worse no matter what we do. Our actions now can only (possibly) avert yet a far worse future farther down the line.

Climate change is here. It's here to stay. It will continue to get worse every year of our lives. That change is already backed in and not reversible.

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Even If Effective Climate Action Starts Now, Things Will Get Hotter & More Unstable For Decades [View all] hatrack Aug 2021 OP

I see this fallacy over and over again... Random Boomer Aug 2021 #1

I read that with Delphinus Aug 2021 #4

Doom-saying skepticism aside, we still have a choice Vogon_Glory Aug 2021 #2

We haven't even come close to defining what "effective" might be. NNadir Aug 2021 #3