With the month long heat wave.

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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the solid source! I do understand the need for keeping the discussion real, but the article clearly states,

    …concluded that to avert catastrophic health impacts and prevent millions of climate change-related deaths…

    Sounds pretty existential to me, at a scale we have never experienced.

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      1 year ago

      Sure. I’m in no way against fighting the climate change and under no illusion that it’s not going to affect the lives of billions of people and will lead to probably tens of millions of unecessary deaths. It’s a true crisis.

      I just personally get irritated when people talk about it as if an asteroid is heading towards earth and is going to wipe out us all. It’s unproductive and causes extreme anxiety to many (especially young) people who don’t know better and it’s also free ammunition for climate change deniers to point out how “the libs lie about this too” etc.

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        1 year ago

        That anxiety bit is too true, it has me fairly despondent when I think about it too long. It’s fair assertion you make, for sure.