WilliamElse

29041 pts ยท January 11, 2013


...lot of work to do and we've already locked in lot of negative impacts.

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...are moving away from the old "business-as-usual" models and emissions aren't now likely to keep growing. Of course, there is still a...

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Nobody is meeting them as quickly as we would like but public awareness is beginning to translate into political and corporate will. We...

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...uniquely adaptable species.

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...point at which we should stop trying to mitgate. Even slowing the process a little will give us more time to adapt. And we're a...

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Yes, the higher we go the greater the risk of encountering feedback loops that will accelerate the process. But as you say, there is no...

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...do everything we can now, since the less we lock in, the less future impacts we'll have to deal with.

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We definitely will, because of the amounts we've already locked in and the time it takes for the system to stabilise. But we should still...

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...and harder than we currently are if we want to avoid a great deal of future suffering.

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...climate change is a gradual slope of intensifying effects, not a sudden apocalyptic event, but we do need to be addressing it faster...

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...awareness is putting pressure on governments and corporations to go carbon neutral. There's no such thing as "too late" because...

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This is deifinitely not the time to give up. Emissions are peaking (albeit later than would be ideal), green tech is surging and public...

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...Stalin and Hitler.

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...that were unintended consequences of his terrible mismanagement of the country. In other words, perhaps not comparable in intent to...

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This is absolutely not a defence of Mao but it's worth pointing out that the majority of deaths attributed to him came from the famines...

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...to touch you with a bargepole.

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The rest of the world is giving you a pass for now. Like maybe you slipped up this once. Happens. Vote him in again and nobody will want...

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"Looking back into history, the Black Death was very poorly handled. Why aren't the Fake News reporting on this?"

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...or Siberia or Brazil affects the whole world.

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This is NOT a defence of Trump but if we want to mitigate climate change we need to work internationally. A wildfire in California...

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He's great. "Factfulness" should be mandatory reading.

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Just to be clear, you think the parties Trump and Epstein held were a "good thing"?

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She's not stupid though. She may have gone off the rails for a while but she's pretty articulate when you see her interviewed.

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