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Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps by zaphod12 on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @09:32AM (#14032368)
I am also very unimpressed by anyone party's effort to combat it, but as this map exemplifies, we aren't even at that stage f the conversation yet with many folks. We NEED to be talking about how to combat it, but instead we're spending all of our time arguing about whether it exists. Which is insane! We're frogs sitting in a pot of water that's about to boil and arguing about whether it's getting hotter, instead of talking about how to jump out.

I'd love to be having policy conversations about solutions instead of doing that.

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Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps by noobiemcfoob on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:01PM (#14034093)
Most proposed "solutions" to this problem directly attack multiple people's livelihoods. They can, should and must defend against these things tooth and nail. Expecting otherwise is naive.

Real solutions look like building out a renewable infrastructure. A thing that is happening everyday already, spearheaded by humanely conscious individuals and companies (Google, Apple, etc). There is literally nothing for the government to do in this situation but get out of the way and facilitate such endeavours.

Instead, we talk about carbon taxes >.>

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Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps by euyyn on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:11PM (#14034224)
I remember a presidential candidate proposing a solution that was boosting the building of renewable infrastructure and technology, so exactly what you propose.

I think calling that a "humanely conscious" government, as you say, would have been appropriate too.

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Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps by noobiemcfoob on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:36PM (#14034552)
I'd rather that president lower my taxes and leave the infrastructure business to companies that actually understand how it connects to everything else.
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Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps by sdflkd on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:03PM (#14038462)
I can't tell if this is satire?
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Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps by euyyn on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:34PM (#14038648)
By those beliefs, you'd rather NASA not had bootstrapped the commercial space business that now has SpaceX developing reusable rockets.
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Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps by noobiemcfoob on Thursday April 06, 2017 @08:37AM (#14049945)
Yes, I would be against any program developed for military reasons. NASA has produced a ton of amazing things. But they did it so we could blow people up.
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