I am OK with the co2. Primative humans lived through the ice age and the thawing that came after. Climate changes as a result of co2 sounds mild in comparison.
I'm curious if you're one of the billions of people that will be affected by coastal flooding, increases in severe weather events, crop loss and water shortages due to droughts, and the socioeconomic conflicts that will inevitably arise because of these issues. There are plenty of other reasons why climate change is bad, but this attitude is jaw-droppingly asinine when we're talking about something that has the potential to outright kill millions due to food and water shortages and cause an immense amount of human suffering and (worse if you're a conservative I guess) economic damage.
Oh, and all those things I just described? That's the conservative predictions for the long-term effects of climate change. These are the things that we know definitely will happen, not the worst case scenario, especially if we continue to accelerate the production of emissions.
Also hunter-gatherers during the last ice age has literally nothing to do with it and I'm genuinely not sure if you're trolling by even bringing it up, because that sounds like the kind of thing I'd say ironically to make fun of climate change deniers.
We are already making great progress
Citation needed?
What is scarier is giving governments more power
I mean I'm no fan of centralized power, being like an anarchist and shit, but the dichotomy here isn't 'take power away from the people and give it to the government', it's 'take power away from megacorporations who are using it to destroy the planet to enrich their CEOs and shareholders and give it to the government'. Since I don't foresee a great anarchist awakening any time soon, this is the best option we've got available to us. I would rather a government that (at least theoretically) has a vested interest in solving the issue have power than corporations and shareholders who have vested interests in
not solving the issue.
But as
zf touched upon, this is not an issue that can be solved within the current neoliberal framework that NA/EU governments operate within. As long as profit and infinite growth are the driving factors of the economy, this problem will not be solved, consequences be damned. Given the way you've framed this issue already, something tells me you're not ready to have this discussion though.
It's hard to take these concerns seriously when the most vocal climate people say how we are doomed in 5 years ever 5 years
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Are conservatives illiterate? I mean usually yes, but holy shit,
read the fucking quote you just posted. Does it say humanity will be wiped out in 5 years or does it say that if we don't stop using fossil fuels over the next five years we'll have passed the point of no return? By the way, I don't exactly agree with that quote myself and I do think it is arguably an example of unproductive alarmism (not that a teenage girl being dramatic on twitter offsets the mountains of hard evidence in favor of climate change, imagine grasping at straws that hard lmao), but even when you've got a debatably legitimate example of alarmism you
still feel the need to misrepresent it. Maybe it's time to do some introspection and examine the things you believe in, and more importantly
why.
Capitalism is seemingly the scape goat for all the world's problems, no different here
It's seemingly the
cause for a lot of the world's problems, not sure why you even bothered commenting about it at all though if you aren't going to offer any kind of rebuttal to the clear and demonstrable links between profit motives and climate change, such as how ExxonMobil has known about climate change and the impacts it will have since the 70s and still chose to fund disinformation campaigns to suppress that information. Why? For profit of course. How does this fit into your benevolent Laissez-Faire capitalist worldview exactly?
EDIT:
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