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Re:Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A. by masklinn on Saturday November 12, 2016 @10:16AM (#12938202)
> The coal alignment is a bigger deal than climate change. We are SOL on climate change anyway

We're SOL on stopping climate change, but what we're doing now will define how bad it gets, and the later we start the worse it will be and the harder the mitigation, as it has been since the 70s.

It's not a question of "SOL" or "token gestures" it's a question of how fast and how far it will go, and how much time we will have to handle such concerns as mass population displacements.

Not doing anything is a giant middle fingers to those who follow us, or for those of us who won't be dead within a generation (aka pretty much anyone other than the boomers), a middle finger to future us.

Re:Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A. by eevilspock on Saturday November 12, 2016 @10:38AM (#12938335)
It's also a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Re:Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A. by reddytowns on Saturday November 12, 2016 @10:30AM (#12938288)
Not necessarily if it becomes a runaway process. It doesn't matter how far you push the glass off the edge of the table, the milk spills all the same.