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Re:Average Global Temperatures since 1850 by londons_explore on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:26AM (#20293783)
A bird puts strong sticks at the base of its nest to prevent the nest falling out of a tree.

That sounds like preventing a catastrophe.

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Re:Average Global Temperatures since 1850 by majewsky on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:32AM (#20293811)
Sure, but that works through natural selection. All the birds that didn't use strong sticks eventually fell out of the trees and their offspring died.

But natural selection doesn't work for us. We don't have a large sample of earths where it doesn't matter when humans die out on some of them.

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