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But yeah, the way I picture it, you start by doing something tiny, then study the results very closely to see if a larger-scale plan is viable.
I really don't give a fuck about global warming, and I fail to see why I should. Or, if I should, why my giving a single fuck about it will change anything.
And don't give me that "If we all chip in" bullshit, either. It doesn't matter how many curly lightbulbs you buy - China, India and other industrializing countries will worry more about feeding and employing their massive populations than about the pwetty fwowers. They won't give a shit anymore than I will.
You'd think that such people might be accustomed to regular flooding and high tides, and compensate by perhaps building houses on stilts.
I fail to see the horror of millions of people moving to a slightly higher elevation over a period of several decades.
Words fail me. With the submersion of the Maldives and the evacuation of its people, the world will surely lose an irreplaceable part of its history. Surely, spending billions in the hopes of stopping climate change when we're just coming out of a recession is justified in the face of the loss of the Maldives.
The climate changes. It happens. Nothing's going to stop it from happening. Nothing's even going to mitigate its effects within a human lifespan. Anyone who tells you that we can STOP climate change is asking for your money.
Pretty much. Because I'm not going to ask people to throw money at a problem just to make it look like they're trying to fix it. I'd rather they do something reasonable, like send an aircraft carrier to pick me and my family up. If I could, I'd secure a boat for my belongings. I wouldn't ask the civilized people of the world to forget about their problems just because I'd been a silly ass and lived within twenty feet of the sea level.
Do you know what humanity used to do when nature tried to fuck them in the ass? They moved. Sometimes they swam, if they had to. They didn't say, "Well, I was born here, so it's other peoples' responsibility to sacrifice everything just so that I might stay living in the same shitty place." And if they did, THEY FUCKING DIED, and the human race was better off.
If the Maldives sink, I will gladly pay to send ships there to pick up refugees and help relocate them. But I'm not going to throw money away because I think I might stop the world from changing.
80 - 120 years?
Do you know that sitting in the Maldives, waiting for people to try to bribe nature, will make your lifespan a lot shorter than that, if global warming is really going to inundate you?
there is no Day After Tomorrow stuff. Please don't do this.
It almost makes me want to increase my carbon emmisions just to spite you guys.
Cygan, your argument would be a lot more compelling if you could convince me that spending money on things we already can't afford will somehow prevent such catastrophes. Or that humanity would somehow not survive such a... moistening. Most of the places where those changes would have the biggest effect are already some of the worst places to live in the world.
Sure, it'll suck. I'll feel bad for the people who die from disease, or are forced to leave their homelands. I am not, however, going to sacrifice my well-being, and the well-being of the people I love, in order to try to solve a problem that a) is not a threat to me, b) can be mitigated by low-cost direct solutions, and c) may not have a grand, neat solution at all.
Also, why would your well-being be sacrificed?