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Re:Rain falls at the summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for first... by space_fountain on Friday August 20, 2021 @02:54PM (#28249944)
So obviously the most apocalyptic predictions are wrong. Life on planet earth can and will survive this. My view is life on planet earth can survive most things we're capable of throwing at it, but the question isn't will we sterilize the planet. The questions is will it be a bad time for humans and yeah rapidly changing the composition of the ocean will be bad for humans. How bad I don't know, but pretty clearly bad
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Re:Rain falls at the summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for first... by fancifalmanima on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:18PM (#28250221)
Even if all the changes that were happening were entirely natural, there's an argument to be made that we know we do well in the conditions that existed during industrialization, and that we should try to maintain the environment within those bands. If we knew the globe was heading into an ice age naturally, for example, I don't know that I'd be against trying to prevent that. I don't want mass starvation, etc.
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