Las Vegas’ water situation shows why theres no need to panic over global warming

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2 points·GaryTang··4 comments

So, massive social change and massive infrastructure projects.

Yeah. Absolute nonsense from the author.

Takes an example of a people taking positive action because they were worried about climate change and then tells us not to worry because 'humans will adapt', completely missing the point that we adapt because we act on things we're worried about.

Author is basically hoping the problem will sort itself out, or that someone else will handle it for them.

Author quotes a study showing "climate-related" deaths have dropped 96% over the last 100 years. So, 100 years ago, a lot of people died from natural disasters. And that proves...? Nonsense indeed.

You could say it proves that our worry about the climate has led to improvements in our response to climate-related dangers.

But it says nothing about our ability to respond to future, observably accelerating, climate dangers. It's an appeal to history.

"We have improved our ability in the past, therefore we'll improve it in the future, and reduce climate dangers further"

When actually you can't predict the future like that. What we're actually seeing is the potential for more 'points of no return' in terms of severity and impact of new climate dangers and more frequent climate dangers that could overwhelm our ability to respond and mitigate.

It's like saying a band-aids are better designed than ever to someone who's about to be stabbed 100 times.

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