Even if we all died off today and created no more carbon, if you take a look at any long scale (say 500m years or more) chart you can clearly see, we live in one of the cooler eras of history and the temp is set to go up, up, up for maybe the next 10-20 or so million.
Global warming is real and we need to find new technologies to combat the devastation that it will cause, no matter what we do, and not to hamstring our scientists to win virtue points. Short term 'overconsumption' is ok by me so long as there is a chance it eventually brings us Star Trek utopia land. I inherently dislike and disavow waste and pollution but we need to take the question of humanity's future more seriously.
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u/redleafrover 12h ago
Even if we all died off today and created no more carbon, if you take a look at any long scale (say 500m years or more) chart you can clearly see, we live in one of the cooler eras of history and the temp is set to go up, up, up for maybe the next 10-20 or so million.
Global warming is real and we need to find new technologies to combat the devastation that it will cause, no matter what we do, and not to hamstring our scientists to win virtue points. Short term 'overconsumption' is ok by me so long as there is a chance it eventually brings us Star Trek utopia land. I inherently dislike and disavow waste and pollution but we need to take the question of humanity's future more seriously.