VAMatt said:
GoOnKid said:
Scientists said that tides will rise, coasts will be flooded, islands will disappear, people will be forced to move if we don't change. There will be many more natural disasters like tornados and floods, former green places will be deserted and arid, millions of plants and animals will be extinct.These are the problems Z you mentioned.
We can already see all of these problems Z today. If we don't change, it will just get worse from this point on. This is what the OP is all about - the damage is already done. Now we look at how to keep the damage as low as possible.
However, we can't just turn everything upside down just with the snap of a finger, we need a lot of time to adapt to this change, therefore the European Union decided to reduce the CO2 exhaustion by 95% by the year 2050. Why so long? Because there are millions of jobs and lives attached to the current situation. Circumstances, infratsructures, industries and mentalities need time to change and the people must slowly learn to deal with these new situations. This just takes time.
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Do you honestly believe that scientists, in the long term, have been reasonably accurate in their predictions of what would happen with respect to the environment? If so, you need to take a step back and look with a critical eye at the last couple decades of this stuff. There's not really anything to debate here. The facts show that most of the public proclamations made by scientists in this area have been incorrect. That's just the way it is.
It does seem that there is important environmental work to be done, and there probably are real possible problems. But, scientists constantly running to the nearest microphone and telling everyone how bad it will be end up making the problems worse because people stop listening to the scientists. Like experts in every field, they have an obligation to humanity to present accurate information. As it stands now, they seem to be working against the environment, albeit indirectly.
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I already told you how science works in my first reply. At this point we're only going to repeat ourselves.
