Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of global leaders finds

Re:Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of g... by NikolaNovak on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:17PM (#22058702)

I agree that "Climate Change" != "Environment Concern", i.e. there are many, many other environmental impacts that we make in addition, over and above specific subset of climate change.

I notice that some articles summarize the study as "Climate threads now dominate", others as "Environmental risks now dominate", and in my mind the two are not at all the same (to me, Climate Change is a proper subset of Environmental Risks).

The original link seems to talk about "Environmental Threats" as a summation of individual concerns such as Climate Action Failure, Biodiversity Loss, Water Crises, etc. I'm OK with that summation myself.

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Re:Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of g... by baddox on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:42PM (#22059047)

I also agree that it's clearly possible to misattribute an environmental concern to climate change, but at the same time, it's probably reasonable to seriously investigate climate change as a cause in any significant environmental concern that does not otherwise have a clear and sufficient explanation.

It feels a bit like nutrition and health. Of course there are plenty of health problems have little or nothing to do with nutrition, but if you know that you have poor nutrition it's a reasonable cause to investigate whenever you have a non-obvious health problem.

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