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[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

but it's not planet killing

That’s cool except no one is arguing about it killing the planet. What it will do is kill our environment which is the part that determines the survival of our species.

[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's not environment-killing either, at least as far as growing wheat and tomatoes is concerned. Environment-damaging, sure, but we could potentially starve a lot of people and keep going (though we shouldn't!), and it's not even clear agricultural output will go down rather than just relocating.

Don't get me wrong, I like having wild animals besides rats and flies, and I don't love the idea of a giant global mass-migration crisis as Bangladesh sinks into the sea and we fight over farmland in what used to be an icecap, so I still think we need to crack down on fossil fuels a lot harder. We're pretty adaptable, though, and some sad little human world will exist on the other side if that's all.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Tell that to the crop failures.

Not only is your opinion absolutely wrong but it’s a dangerous one too because it removes the need to change and to do so quickly.

This is why nothing will ever change and why humans will continue polluting and destroying our habitat.

Humans are fucking stupid.

[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Crops in western America might fail, but the whole world isn't America. Yields move, and 2023-2024 was a record harvest globally.

Don't take my word for it, there's an actual scientist elsewhere in the thread.

Humans are fucking stupid.

Well, we can agree on that. The human reaction to "the world is ending" is usually giving up. Which is why we shouldn't say that unless the science supports that, which it doesn't quite.

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