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Comment by wkat4242 | Hacker News Reader

Not banning poses an imminent risk to all global citizens

Not sure if this was meant sarcastically. If not, why would this be the case?

You haven't seen what's happening already?

Now picture that the emissions causing the current climate upheaval were emitted decades ago. We're already way behind the curve. It's going to get worse already. Letting things get even worse in the future is a serious risk to everyone.

Decades of propaganda has lead to a large portion of the population believing that the world will end soon if climate change isn’t fixed.

It won't end as a whole no. Humanity will continue but many areas will become uninhabitable. Of course some others like Siberia will become more habitable. But this has the potential of causing mass migration and therefore serious conflict because this will affect borders. As a result, wars making things worse both direct by hurting people and indirect by even more energy consumption.

One way or another it will make life worse for everyone

In the last 70 years, not a single dire risk warning from the church of climatology has come true. Not one.

But now we're super-cereal! Believe us this time guys. It will happen unless you buy products and services from ESG cult companies in my portfolio...

Sea level rise: check (Arctic ice melting is worse than predicted)

Extreme weather events: check. Even the US has had this. And Canada! Aren't you seeing how crazy the weather is becoming?

Global temperature rise: check, higher than predicted.

And remember these things are caused by the emissions from a few decades ago. The worst is still to come and we're already too late to reverse that. Climate change has a lot of inertia. Like Obama said, we're the first generation to feel the effects and the last who can do something about it.

What we do in 2035 will stop the trend in 2050 and later, not earlier. Extrapolate what's happening now till then..

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