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Originally Posted by Tinordi
The reason you act on climate change, or incur sorry term costs, is that the long term costs of inaction are likely severe.
Here are the truisms of climate, if you do not accept these then I suggest you not go sailing for fear of falling over the edge of the world:
1. The climate system is warming much faster than is "natural".
2. The reason it is warming so fast is because we are burning fossil fuels and increasing the composition of the atmosphere.
3. We don't know the short term implications of this but we have strong inclinations add to the long term impacts.
4. These impacts will put severe stresses on basic support systems for civilization such as good and water.
5. The costs of dealing with it now are significantly smaller than trying to deal with it after the fact.
6. This requires us to be comfortable with change in the face of unknown benefits and to pay for actions that we will not enjoy but our grandchildren will.
7. Inaction is a choice to willfully impose a degraded, fragile, poorer future on those next in line.
8. What you can choose to do is to accept short term change and inconveniences in your life. Specifically if you care about this issue you must come for politicians who care about action and punish politicians who do nothing.
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You miss one important point.
ITS TOO LATE and NOT POSSIBLE to stop.
We have already missed the boat on the 2 degrees of warming. In order to stabilize at two degrees and have everyone on Earth emit carbon we need to cut Canadian emissions by 95% to 97%. These things are not achievalbe. Every political solution of reducing greenhouse gases does nothing to stop global warming.
Dealing with the effects of Global warming seems much more practical then trying to stop it when we can't. Even if somehow you could get China, US, India, and Russia to agree you still can't stop it. So better options will be some sort of geo-engineering solution. Its too late to cut Carbon.