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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like it’s too late to stop it - which is what I keep hearing from the climate Chicken Littles, anyway. 
So can we just accept that it’s happening and nothing can be done about it?

Besides, with birth rates falling like they are, we’ll be lucky to have 3 billion humans left on the earth in 100 years. It’ll be pretty hard to sustain anthropogenic climate change without people. [/quote]

Even with falling birth rates the world's population is projected to continue rising until about 2090, peaking over 10 billion and then perhaps slowly declining. So climate change is likely to get even worse unless we work harder to address the problem. I disagree that nothing can be done about. Solutions exist. There are examples of wealth countries with relatively low CO2 per capita. France, for example, has a high GDP-per-capita but has a GDP-per-capita that is just one-third of the level in the U.S. While we cannot stop climate change, we can decelerate it, with a combination of nuclear power and increased renewables.

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Above, I meant that France has CO-per-capita that is one-third the level of the US.[/quote]

France also uses nuclear power to generate about 85% of the electrical power.

Maybe if all the American leftists, progressives and environmentalists got onboard with nuclear power we could diminish our own carbon footprint, too?

But nope.  They won’t.

Which illustrates clearly that the environmental movement in America isn’t about the environment at all. It’s about consolidating political power. [/quote]

Nuclear is not the only option.  [/quote]

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