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Right?
Poor people and folk from less developed countries are disproportionately going to be made to suffer horrendously before they die.
This is not about stopping it. It is about damage reduction.
It's like saying we shouldn't really care for people who come into the accident room because they are going to die, eventually, anyway.
In my experience doomers are just looking for a convenient excuse not to do anything, but they suddenly become really motivated when it's their home that is flooding, or on fire, or flooded and on fire.