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Re:Massive glacier collapse by craigching on Monday February 04, 2013 @01:50PM (#5166136)
> There are a lot of problems that we need to look at before climate change, like population control, water management, antibiotics etc etc.

Who says some of these aren't related to climate change anyway? As others have pointed out, we need to be working on these problems simultaneously, if we tried to solve them serially there's a good chance none of them get resolved.

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Re:Massive glacier collapse by jessriedel on Monday February 04, 2013 @02:17PM (#5166333)
I don't agree with hnriot, but it's worth pointing out that if the topic of discussion is "what someone should devote their life to", then the order of importance of problems is crucial. Also, recognizing that some problems are orders of magnitude less important than others (so that spending time and energy on them is a net negative) is not the same thing as advocating that all problems be approached one at a time.
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