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Originally Posted by zeek
The climate change that is underway is remaking the world in such a way that familiar comforts, places and ways of life will disappear in the coming years and decades. If the governments of the world got serious about it right now it would probably take a hundred years to reverse the climate situation. People seldom think that far ahead. Most of the fat cats in charge are all about short-term profits.
If the cooperative efforts of liberal democratic governments throughout the world don't deal with climate change, totalitarian dictators will arise to enact Draconian measures against ordinary people. The glaciers that supply water for millions of people are drying up. The famine war and pestilence the drives immigration is likely to get worse. Walls won't stop them.
Environmental disaster is the legacy we are leaving our children and grandchildren to deal with. A growing number of them are aware of the enormity of the problem and are demonstrating to try to get the attention of the powerful. I stand with them.
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What this doesn't account for is that without fossil fuel we could not possibly support 7 billion people. So threatening that if we don't do something people will be harmed ignores the fact that all the solutions recommended also harm people. A totalitarian regime decides these people suffer, these people pay, these people die. How is that any different from people like Ocasio?
This path that we have been on has been inevitable for the last 200 years. So yes, I agree that this is due to man's actions, and these actions can be viewed as sins. But the sins were committed at the time of Solomon, that is the point where we could have really made a difference. I can't see the industrial revolution starting in the 1800s as having to be guilty of climate change, everything they did made it possible for more and more people to live better lives. Second, the idea that we could have done more with solar and wind may be true, but we are talking about 10 years at the best, hardly believable that anything the US did actually was a set back to the world.
The fact that everyone else (other than Jesus and a few apostles and prophets) have been clueless until the last 20-30 years is simply an example of how clueless those living in darkness are.