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Why is this being downvoted?



Because people don't like to confront the reality of the problem.

“It is worse, much worse, than you think.” - David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth


Worse still - the problem is worse then you think and the solutions are more complicated then you suppose. If you stopped all air travel it might make emissions go up. It might reduce economic growth that makes implementing other fixes harder not easier.

There's a reason all of these emissions are produced - it's pleasant to imagine that it's all about things that don't really matter - does some rich guy get a sports car or an econobox - but I genuinely don't believe it's that simple. Instead it's a series of complicated decisions about productivity, value and risk.


Honestly, there is a very hard evidence requirement for anybody claiming the world has already ended. I just looked out of the window, it seems to be still there.


Because it's basically saying we need to shut down the economy and resort to cannibalism.




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