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Re:Advocates want to name heatwaves like hurricanes to raise... by martythemaniak on Monday September 14, 2020 @10:59AM (#24470927)
The question is "what's at stake with climate change", not about what happens to invididuals (because everything happens to individuals).

What's at stake isn't the death of the planet, or the death of life, or the death of civilization. All these things are resilient enough to adapt to the effects of climate change.

What isn't resilient enough is our quality of life, which is based on my assumptions that climate change will invalidate. The next generation will thus have to spend their surplus resources dealing with these adaptations, instead of leveraging themselves up into higher and better lives.

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Re:Advocates want to name heatwaves like hurricanes to raise... by vharuck on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:24AM (#24471246)
>All these things are resilient enough to adapt to the effects of climate change.

Everything lasts forever, until it's over. Extinctions are the norm in Earth's history. There's no reason to think humans are the exception. The fact that humanity has yet to die off isn't much comfort. It's a sample size of 1 species, and by definition we wouldn't even be discussing this if the alternative happened.

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