Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by Throwaway197401 on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:19AM
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Making energy more expensive is going to kill people today.
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by Denvercoder9 on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:23AM
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Continuing carbon emissions is going to kill more people in the future.
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by Throwaway197401 on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:27AM
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No it's not and you have not a single scientifically demonstrated foundation for that kind of claims.
Using fossil fuels is saving more lives, in fact it's making it possible for billions of people to live today. That wouldn't be possible without fossil fuels. In fact most of us wouldn't be here.
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by Denvercoder9 on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:39AM
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> No it's not and you have not a single scientifically demonstrated foundation for that kind of claims.
There's pretty clear scientific consensus that climate change will result in more hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, cold spells, floods, droughts and especially that there will be shortages of clean water and land suitable for agriculture. All of those things kill humans.
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by bserge on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:58AM
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> In fact most of us wouldn't be here.
And everyone, everything would be better off.
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by epistasis on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:32AM
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How so? Please be explicit.
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by magicalhippo on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:44AM
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If the cost of fuel for your emergency generators results in people dying, you have much bigger issues.
Besides, the cost could be born by others similar to how we have duty-free fuel here for farm equipment and similar.
Use carbon capture to generate fuel from the air. Yes it's expensive compared to regular diesel, but for use-cases with low consumption like emergency generators that really shouldn't be a huge issue.