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Environment & Energy

Delphinus

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4. I read that with

Reply to Random Boomer (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 19, 2021, 08:38 PM

Aug 2021

Jared Diamond's book, How Civilizations Choose to Fail (or something akin to that) and his last chapter talked about how even if we stopped right now, things would continue forward because of what was baked in.

I don't think anyone knows how to tells us the truth without making people freak out.

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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