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Climate catastrophe isn't so certain
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RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain
(May 12, 2012 at 11:15 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Lets not ignore the vast tracks of land that will also be made available for agriculture under those very same predictions. I would have stuck with cyclones, because now you're invoking warfare, which we don't really need an excuse for in the first place, and I definitely won't lay that one on the clouds.

Let me elaborate on why the cyclone argument isn't very compelling to me either. I grew up in Florida. Badass storms every day 4pm on the dime. Trailer parks were consistently wrecked by tornados. Every time the wind knocked over one of their tin cans you'd see the smiling doofus on the evening news "What are you gonna do now Billy Ray?"

"Rebuild". Excuse me for suggesting, Mr. Ray, that you move. Or, at the very least, take some precautions against the weather that has ripped your home to shreds three times in the last ten years. All of these examples seem to boil down to "If we assume the very worst, and people respond in an exceedingly poor manner, then life will continue, business as usual, people dying for the same idiotic reasons they've been dying for since time immemorial -and potentially at a higher rate-". Meanwhile, I'm left wondering why the climate apocalypse so often predicted as just around the corner has failed to materialize. I understand that you aren't arguing the killer wave bit. I'm just venting.


Warfare doesn't need excuses to start, but they do need reasons, even if you don't agree they are sufficient or that warfare is the best way to address them. One almost universal reason for warfares to start is the fact that resources you need is under someone else's control.

So what if ACC create more farm land somewhere else? That somewhere else is almost certainly already claimed and owned. The land currently being farmed will drown. People from drowned land need the new farmland owned by someone else. See the cause, not merely excuse, for war?

how about this, if there are more clouds, the same unfathomable stupidity will have worse consequences. Stupidity can't be cured, but clouds might be reduced, and it would pretty damn nifty if the consequences don't get worse. So work on the clouds.
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Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Welsh cake - May 10, 2012 at 2:31 am
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Napoléon - May 11, 2012 at 12:18 pm
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Reforged - May 11, 2012 at 9:51 am
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Napoléon - May 11, 2012 at 12:28 pm
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Napoléon - May 11, 2012 at 12:39 pm
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Reforged - May 11, 2012 at 4:34 pm
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Anomalocaris - May 13, 2012 at 11:50 am
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Reforged - May 15, 2012 at 1:24 pm
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by LastPoet - May 16, 2012 at 9:59 am
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Polaris - May 19, 2012 at 12:04 am
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Polaris - May 22, 2012 at 11:17 am
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Polaris - May 22, 2012 at 11:54 am
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Polaris - May 22, 2012 at 12:39 pm

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