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Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says (www.dw.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In short, we aren't on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions.

He makes it clear too that this doesn't mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We're going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren't insurmountable and extinction level.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nuclear takes too long to build out and costs way more than renewables + storage. Why advocate for wasting money?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because we waste money already?

We have an oversaturated military budget to obtain oil from third world countries, we could start there?

How about we stop giving debt to China? We owe them $37 trillion already, there isn't even that many USD on the planet lol.

The government doesn't "waste money" because money means nothing to the government, money is a tool used by the government to get the people to do things the government wants. They can and will print money as needed, which doesn't decrease the value of the USD as FIAT's value is determined by a countries power in terms of trade, politics, and military strength.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All of that whataboutism doesn't stop nuclear from being a ridiculously expensive form of power generation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nor does it stop coal from being a ridiculously destructive form of power generation.

I can go tit for tat with this all day. I don't give a shit about money, money means fuck all when we're living in an inhospitable hellhole 50 years from now.

I never said that they'd do it and of course they wouldn't, but that it would be the best for us as a species. Instead we will hold onto our fossil fuels until we either destroy the planet or get so low that we decide to kill each other for it.