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Re:No Climate Event in 2,000 Years Compares to What’s Happen... by Lendal on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:34PM (#20526800)
What if this is as good as it gets? What if everyone who can be convinced, has been convinced? Will human beings go to their deaths in large numbers continuing to deny something because they can't handle it? I worry that this could be the peak level of responsibility that we as a species can manage.
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Re:No Climate Event in 2,000 Years Compares to What’s Happen... by derg on Thursday July 25, 2019 @01:20PM (#20527378)
This is what I worry about.

At this point, it's not a matter of if people will die, but how many people will die. And if millions of people dying is enough to motivate enough people to do something.

We're about to find out if the idea of the 'Great Filter'[0] is true or not.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

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