That answer is so wrong in so many ways. On one hand calling global warming inevitable, and then calling the one warning about it alarmist. That's like me being called an alarmist because I point to a piano that's about to fall on your head. That's very funny tho. Im go in to save this and show it to some friends. Oh brother.
If you are a nihilst or sadist, so you consider human suffering and death a positive outcome, then within your system of beliefs anthropogenic global warming isn't such a bad thing.
What I suspect is actually the case is you wish to believe some regions of the Earth will benefit from altered climate with milder winters, longer growing seasons, etc., and the magnitude of that benefit will somehow approach the disruption and devestation from sea level rise, more extreme weather, shorter growing seasons, etc. in much of the rest of the world where humans have chosen to live precisely because of the favorable climate, proximity to water, etc. of those regions.
That's like saying a tree limb falling and crushing your car won't be so bad because your next door neighbor might give you his car, or you can go out and buy another car. Yes, you might actually end up with a better car. But the transaction which nets you a better car is not costless. It will require either money or violence, or both.
This post was edited by OldSchoolTheSKOSlives at January 2, 2017 9:13 AM MST
Not at all. I think you're badly mistaken in your ambivalence, but that's as far as it goes.
It is in the nature of life that it specialises and generalises. Rapid change of any sort will advantage the generalists to the severe detriment of the specialists. The problem humanity has is the way life is interconnected. Somewhere in the chain are always specialists, and if you lose them you often disrupt the chain for both groups. Nobody wins, though some lose less than others.
But choose the wrong species (bees for instance) and get rid of them and humanity, wherever it lives is roundly screwed in it's current form. Bees can start wars? Well yes, why not? Generalisation can only go so far in helping a species survive before pressure breeds conflict, and although humanity is a generalist, it's very much a dependant one.
The respondents, me included, made the wrongheaded assumption that you have the well being of PEOPLE in mind. Apparently, you're worried more about DIRT.
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