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this is usually an interesting discussion to have, and there are a lot of interesting questions to ask in this field--so let's ask and talk about a few. feel free to answer as many as you want, or ask your own of people in the comments. here are two groups of three that i think are good to start:

  • Do you suffer from anxiety about climate change and its effects?
  • Have you ever made significant individual lifestyle choices because of climate change?
  • Have you ever thought of leaving where you live because of potential future climactic effects? Have you actually moved already because of them?
  • Do you think the world can limit global warming to 1.5C or 2C? Where do you think we'll "level off" in terms of warming--especially if you don't think we'll meet either of those goals?
  • What do you think of proposed technologies like carbon capture? Do you think they're useful, or a technocratic waste of time? Can they be viably used at large scale on any reasonable timeframe?
  • Do you support something like climate reparations either now or in the future? Do you think such a thing is even viable?
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the consensus is that if we even reach a warming of 3 C, the continuation of the human race is at risk no?

something around there is when it'd get really, really bad for most people yeah--and at that point i think we'd be nearly certain to hit some sort of feedback loop so we'd probably need to do geoengineering and/or intensive carbon capture to not really lose control. but it's tough to say what, if any threshold is truly "unadaptable" for humanity.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

True. With the limited data we have we can estimate when it will get really bad, but humans are if nothing, resilient.