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What data does your suspicion derive from?
Because historians work on different time scales. Stuff from only a few decades ago is still politics, not history.
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Because historians work on different time scales. Stuff from only a few decades ago is still politics, not history.
That's quite the non-sequitur. What relationship are you implying between this supposition and the scientific facts of climate change? Would your argument change if it were astronomers telling you an asteroid would hit in 5 years?
Historians don't look back only a few decades. That's still politics. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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That's quite the non-sequitur. What relationship are you implying between this supposition and the scientific facts of climate change? Would your argument change if it were astronomers telling you an asteroid would hit in 5 years?
I was replying to > In a few decades, historians will be able to look back Historians don't look back only a few decades. That's still politics. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Since we're into definitional pedantry, you're incorrect anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_history
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Why is not eating meat/dairy "one of the best things we can do personally"?
Because land-use change is a leading cause of climate change, and most land-use change is happening to grow and harvest animals. Add on top of that the monoculture crops are also largely grown to feed animals, and those monocultures also drive climate change. Eating a plant based diet is great, but even switching to locally raised, pasture grown animals can be a positive. But ultimately pastures need to be re-wilded…