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Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction by trentnix on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @10:43AM (#20402421)
If history is any indicator, forcing people to live according to the whims of Others results in death and destruction. The coercive power required to get people to behave and the inevitable blowback that occurs when people are unable to govern themselves will result in a lot of both.

Not everyone is going to like the environmental jihad that is being suggested, and that’s a big problem.

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Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction by Angostura on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @10:51AM (#20402497)
> Not everyone is going to like the environmental jihad that is being suggested, and that’s a big problem.

The thing about democracy is that not everyone has to like everything - just the majority.

I don't like that I'm going to have to change my lifestyle, in order to prevent appalling environmental damage, but I understand that I will have to.

The "big problem" is the kind of people who describe pragmatic evidence-based policies designed to avoid collapse of civilisation as "an environmental jihad"

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Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction by naturlich on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @10:58AM (#20402552)
The alternative is to do nothing and that will result in death and destruction. If the ability to harm the environment and other people is a freedom people are up in arms about losing, it's a shitty freedom to have in the first place. One person's freedom should not impinge on others'.

Given the choice between the state taking away coal or mass extinction, I'm choosing the former.

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