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Re:We Have Four Years to Save Ourselves from Climate Change,... by yogthos on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:50AM (#20164572)
Except nobody was crying wolf. If we took the problem seriously back then, we wouldn't be fucked now. The reality is that we're living through a mass extinction driven by climate change. Over 60% of animals have gone extinct since the 70s.

The fact that people are looking at the world today and asking where's the problem is beyond belief.

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Re:We Have Four Years to Save Ourselves from Climate Change,... by weberc2 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:04AM (#20164739)
It's not beyond belief; it's that it's happening so slowly that it's not perceived by the common person. And the "crying wolf" that people upthread were referring to was the "this will be irreversible in N years" specifically, not the broader threat of climate change generally.
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Re:We Have Four Years to Save Ourselves from Climate Change,... by RyanDagg on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:17AM (#20164868)
"Over 60% of animals have gone extinct since the 70s" Citations?
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Re:We Have Four Years to Save Ourselves from Climate Change,... by stackola on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:27AM (#20164985)
Might be referring to this [1], but it concludes population sizes have gone down 60%, which doesn't sound good either, but is still a different story.

[1] https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/living-planet-report-2018

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