Yes, there's lots of factors, climate change is one very important one. Which I've been saying in this thread. Because I don't caveat every post with a statement like "there are lots of factors" you seem to think that that's a flaw in my opinion.
I'm not obsessively focusing on climate change for my own superiority complex - it's for my sense of dread. That we still don't see this catastrophes for what they are. A massive warning sign that significant disruption, cost, and loss of life is on the horizon unless we do something. So should we sit back and dare not discuss how climate is a factor in this story because there are so many other factors that scolds like you can latch onto for no other reason that trying to feel smug and superior yourself?
Better said here:
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-envir...climate-change
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But again, at the same time, it’s grossly irresponsible to leave climate out of the picture. We know it’s going to get worse. We know it’s going to make every other challenge more challenging, every damage more damaging, every expense more expensive.
Whether the climate signal is discernible now, it surely will be by the end of the century. By then, our opportunity to prevent some of it will be long past.
Everything human beings do, we do in a climate (except hang out on the space station, I suppose).
Our climate has been in a rough temperature equilibrium for about 10,000 years, while we developed agriculture and advanced civilization and Netflix.
Now our climate is about to rocket out of that equilibrium, in what is, geologically speaking, the blink of an eye. We’re not sure exactly what’s going to happen, but we have a decent idea, and we know it’s going to be weird. With more heat energy in the system, everything’s going to get crazier — more heat waves, more giant rainstorms, more droughts, more floods.
That means climate change is part of every story now. The climate we live in shapes agriculture, it shapes cities and economies and trade, it shapes culture and learning, it shapes human conflict. It is a background condition of all these stories, and its changes are reflected in them.
So we’ve got to get past this “did climate change cause it?” argument. A story like Harvey is primarily a set of local narratives, about the lives immediately affected. But it is also part of a larger narrative, one developing over decades and centuries, with potentially existential stakes.
We’ve got to find a way to weave those narratives together while respecting and doing justice to both.
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So what's your point? You agree with me? Thanks.