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Originally Posted by Frank MetaMusil
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drifts, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets, asteroids, & meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages..... The planet isn't going anywhere, we are.
-Carlin
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I don't get it, we should throw up our hands and accept our fate because there's nothing we can do about it?
Man this debate gets so dumb sometime. Nobody is saying we need to act on climate change because we're going to destroy the planet. We need to act on climate change because there will be significant repercussions for human civilization. Isn't that reason enough?