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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think most of us agree if we can help stop climate change and do our part, it's worthwhile, no matter how small a part.

However, the realist in me feels that it's the wrong perspective.

We should actually be pouring all our money, focus, PR into finding solutions to both maximize the time we have left that has the temperature holding stable and figuring out the plan for when instability happens.  I doubt it will take until year 2050 or whatever - I'm thinking by 2025 or 2026, before 2030, we will be at the mercy of weather for most of US.

Ultimately, people are emotional beings and there's just too much weirdness and craziness and greed going on to really impact a positive change on this subject.  I don't see us stopping travel, not using plastic to make most products, banning energy sources we would need in order to help climate change.  There's just no possibility of us all doing enough.  Whether you elect public officials who vow to make it an important cause or not, you gotta face the reality that the world needs and wants what we have.  I don't believe for a minute we can just change our lifestyles over the course of a few years so I think we're pretty much going to suffer in 5-10 years.

What we CAN do that would be effective is figure out technology to curb the suffering.  Hey, if we're gonna mess up the planet anyway, we may as well come up with some meaningful ways to survive the messed up planet sooner rather than later!![/quote]

My thoughts exactly[/quote]

Your plan means that only the rich will survive. The very people that caused this mess in the first place will suck up ever more resources so that tjey can “adapt”. The poorest always suffer the most.[/quote]
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It’s poor people getting swamped in Bangladesh, it’s girls having to carry water miles, it’s farmers and ranchers in desertifying areas who can no longer feed themselves. I’m not okay with the nihilism because it’s just privileged and pompous and lets everyone off the hook. “Oh well, I didn’t have kids so this is fine.” No, it’s not fine. Not an insignificant number of people on this board are people with actual power and could do something; certainly we can all vote Democratic and get the GOP rot out so that we [i]can[/i] actually do something. The rest of us non-powerful people with yards can convert 50% (or more) of our turf to native perennials and sequester carbon instead of releasing it every time we throw more chemical inputs on our lawns.

Stop pretending to be fine with this when you will be but millions won’t. [/quote]

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