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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by blooalien on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:36PM (#27910205)
Problem is that in this particular issue the natural systems of the planet are straight up breaking down and soon could spiral so out of control as to be entirely beyond our ability to do anything about the issue. The longer we wait, the higher the odds it becomes "unfixable".
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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by delecti on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:46PM (#27910347)
I don't disagree with any of that. I'm not saying things will be good globally, or even in very many places. I'm just saying that it's likely that climate change will leave some areas of the planet better than they are now.

Whether or not we have the ability now, or will have the ability in the future, to reverse course on climate change was entirely unrelated to the point I was trying to make.

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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by blooalien on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:42PM (#27911885)
> … "it's likely that climate change will leave some areas of the planet better than they are now."

Almost certain to be true … temporarily.

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