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  1. AeonDagomar Degroot11/11/1919 min
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    • jamie4 years ago

      `Finally..... a great article that doesn't seem to have over-political harping and blaming.... Climate change is scary but this article allows for common respectful conversation.... I imagine this makes both ultra-liberal and staunch conservative to have their collective minds explode but somewhere in the middle, excellent writing like this could take root and create a dialogue that most people can engage in.

      That being said, I do love Greta and her passion. We need her voice to counteract the simplistic views of the science deniers.

      • bill
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        4 years ago

        Greta used to annoy me. I thought she was 90% social media star and 10% activist, but I have since changed my mind after watching two speeches she gave in rooms full of extremely wealthy and powerful elites. She's a powerful orator - very root chakra - and seemed to me to have Susan B Anthony vibes.

        To solve this problem, some fundamental aspects of humanity need to change. We don't need new public policy, or even a new government - we need to upgrade our consciousness. On that level, I actually enjoy thinking about climate change, as a huge game. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I think we got this.

    • jbuchana4 years ago

      Response to climate change in the past shows that, on a whole, we might survive climate change better than we fear.

      • bill
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        4 years ago

        Worthy, thought-provoking read. Great find.

        Our tendency in both popular media and academia to tell simplistic climate-change disaster stories has not served us well, either in understanding the past or in preparing for the future. Popular misconceptions that humanity is doomed – that we are, as the US presidential candidate Andrew Yang put it recently, ‘10 years too late’ – threaten to discourage the very action that could still limit anthropogenic climate change to manageable levels. Far less defensible assumptions that climate change has happened before and is therefore nothing to worry about – ahistorical nonsense often fronted by those who once denied the very existence of human-caused warming – pose even greater obstacles to urgent action. It is crucial that we expand the space between these harmful extremes. Writing more nuanced histories of past climate change is one way to do it.

        • jeff4 years ago

          Yup! It's refreshing to be able to read something on an important topic that's well-researched and not sensationalized.