RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain
May 12, 2012 at 11:15 pm
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2012 at 11:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
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.
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.
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