Tyndall Center Director Anderson: Rapid Emissions Reduction Hard: 4-6C Far, Far Worse

[AverageJoe90]

40. Re: "The resources of the planet were entirely undepleted."

And? That may be true to a point, but it doesn't change the fact that we lost all but 100,000 of our ancestors, and the change was so totally sudden and so severe, on top of that, that few had any time or means to prepare.

We are pretty darn fortunate these days, all things considered. It took human society thousands and thousands of years to rebuild after Toba. One thing we can be grateful for is that that won't be the case for AGW. That does not, btw, undercut by any means the unfortunate seriousness of what we face.

But if we allow hype & hysteria to overtake us, then guess what? We risk getting nothing done. Our enemies will be able to screw us over even more; they will be able to use the self-appointed climate Cassandras as scapegoats to tar the rest of us and in fact, that has already happened to an extent(before you accuse me of throwing out blame, in this case, I'm not).