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they've told us how to stop climate change
This is what's known as a category error. Science has a model of which changes in human action would alter the extent of anthropogenic climate change, but how we deal with climate change is a political question. You could definitely eliminate all further anthropogenic effects on climate by killing all humans, but that may not be the most palatable solution politically.
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You could definitely eliminate all further anthropogenic effects on climate by killing all humans, but that may not be the most palatable solution politically.
I’d definitely want to know the rest of their platform, but can see myself voting for that.
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Of course political change is required to force corporations to change their behavior as consumers have proven incapable of making “correct” choices on their own.
One could also encourage adoption of a new religion
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You could definitely eliminate all further anthropogenic effects on climate by killing all humans
The gift of consciousness has manifested as a greedy accumulation of more resources than we need. We're destroying our own habitat. Perhaps consciousness is an evolutionary dead end? Would our extinction be less likely if we didn't have it?
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You could definitely eliminate all further anthropogenic effects on climate by killing all humans, but that may not be the most palatable solution politically.
Jared Diamond shared a theory in Guns, Germs and Steel that the mini ice age in the sixteenth century was caused by the deaths of 95 percent of the inhabitants of the Americas from diseases following Columbus, leading to widespread re-vegetation that caused climate change. That may have been discredited now.
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Maybe you are being glib. If not then that's how basically all science works, someone gets money or creates a space to study something seemingly innocuous and weird that probably goes nowhere or makes something curious but with no real world use. Then 5 years later another scientist comes across it by random and realises it's exactly what they need to finish a new prototype of particle accelerator.
And yeah they've told us how to stop climate change but 20 quid ryanair flights, PS5s and same day Amazon deliveries are quite handy so sorry future generations 🤷