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Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by markus_zhang on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:49PM (#27305932)
You can't do that right now. Basically what you are asking is to ask a lot of people to lose their jobs, starve, for something uncertain (scientifically proved or not) in the future.

In the same time, the only thing we can do, as individuals, is to reduce the emission from our side. But it's wrong to enforce it upon others.

Yeah man, downvote me as you wish, but LOL you won't get very far.

Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by helmholtz on Thursday May 27, 2021 @02:04PM (#27306135)
This comment is wrong on several levels. First, citation needed for the starvation hyperbole. There are more than a few competent people predicting that tackling climate change will actually create jobs because we will have to solve a whole host of new problems. Things like distribution, mass manufacturing, long term maintenance of equipment, design of the systems in the first place and on and on.

Second, "scientifically proved or not"? Are you really questioning whether we've proven climate change is occurring?

Finally, if you've been paying attention, you'll notice that the voices telling us that climate change is an individual problem and not a policy reform/regulation problem are basically Big Oil propaganda designed to demoralise you with guilt. It's not about individual action. I would still recommend it for spiritual and philosophical reasons, but not scientific.

Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by bumby on Thursday May 27, 2021 @02:04PM (#27306131)
I didn’t downvote but would be curious about your definition of “enforcement” that makes it wrong. I assume you mean “morally” wrong here and it seems NOT enforcing repercussions for externalities would be the immoral choice.