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Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction

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Re: Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction

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I notice how the last time, a lot of these climate change posts go uncommented for a long time.

Personally, I always feel gloom and doom when seeing them. We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted, and in fact the western world is partying straight into disaster.

Maybe I'm not alone here, so the stories get voted up but not commented on?

For what its worth, I see some hope the last few years. Some people are doing something both on a scientific and sociological level. Things are finally moving, even if it is not yet enough.

Re: Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction

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I notice how the last time, a lot of these climate change posts go uncommented for a long time. Personally, I always feel gloom and doom when seeing them. We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted, and in fact the western world is partying straight into disaster. Maybe I'm not alone here, so the stories get voted up but not commented on? For what its worth, I see some hope the last…

Do something then, you can be the example to us all.

Re: Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction

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I notice how the last time, a lot of these climate change posts go uncommented for a long time. Personally, I always feel gloom and doom when seeing them. We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted, and in fact the western world is partying straight into disaster. Maybe I'm not alone here, so the stories get voted up but not commented on? For what its worth, I see some hope the last…

- Nothing was done about Climate Change back then

- It was an "extinction" event

- In reality, nothing really happened, and here we go again, people feel gloom and doom...

> Things are finally moving, even if it is not yet enough.

Here's a link for you, Buffet and other heroes who can help the good things happen faster: https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html

Re: Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction

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The previous climatic changes were to “cool” periods because of vulcanology, etc. Humans at that time may not have had the technological know how to counteract the change in climate: agriculture, grain silos, hybrid plants, synthetic materials, medicines, etc., etc.

We have full blown plans to survive a nuclear winter, so I think with respect to les anciens, we have a better chance of beating it, unlike the other humanistic subspecies who didn’t make it out.

Re: Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction

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I notice how the last time, a lot of these climate change posts go uncommented for a long time. Personally, I always feel gloom and doom when seeing them. We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted, and in fact the western world is partying straight into disaster. Maybe I'm not alone here, so the stories get voted up but not commented on? For what its worth, I see some hope the last…

Do something then, you can be the example to us all.

> We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted

But there isn't anything to do. We missed our chance.

Re: Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction

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I notice how the last time, a lot of these climate change posts go uncommented for a long time. Personally, I always feel gloom and doom when seeing them. We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted, and in fact the western world is partying straight into disaster. Maybe I'm not alone here, so the stories get voted up but not commented on? For what its worth, I see some hope the last…

While climate change is a serious problem it’s nowhere near an extinction level event for humanity.

While not an excuse to fuck up the planet more than we have had, we can pretty much turn it into a wasteland and still survive with modern technology it won’t be fun and it would cost many lives but realistically if you are living in a western country today you are both unfortunately and fortunately going to be shielded from most of it.

Re: Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction

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Climate change also pushed modern humans into existence.

and currently pushing modern humans into extinction again

Ridiculous statements like this do not encourage people to take the real serious problems of global warming seriously.

It's a crisis which will be a catastrophe, but under no plausible endgame is extinction for us.

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