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Re:Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are... by eli_gottlieb on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:01AM (#21027438)
>Once voters realize that this would take personal cost for benefits they won't see in their lifetime, I can't see them willfully voting for any substantial reversal.

Dying on a burning planet is a cost I expect to feel personally.

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Re:Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are... by MiroF on Saturday September 21, 2019 @05:34PM (#21038051)
> Dying on a burning planet is a cost I expect to feel personally.

But you understand that isn't how the science works, right?

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Re:Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are... by eli_gottlieb on Sunday September 22, 2019 @07:41PM (#21044722)
No, I legitimately thought that the food web was slowly collapsing from the bottom up while deforestation and desertification accelerate. I had thought we were either headed for starving to death or choking to death for lack of core biological dependencies (food and oxygen) once but no longer supplied by nature.
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