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Originally Posted by New Era
Your doctor: You have stage four cancer. We need to pursue aggressive remediation protocols immediately or you're going to be dead in two years.
You: I feel fine.
Your doctor: You may feel fine right now, but you have masses growing in a number of vital organs and its already spread to your lymphatic system and bones. We need to act.
You: Isn't there room for reasonable dialogue between dead in two years and I'm just fine?
Just so we're clear, this is be critical, but to poke fun at the suggestion of more dialogue. Things aren't getting better with more dialogue. We needed to act back in the 70's when the issue was first raised. We didn't, and now we're in real deep doo. Time for talk is over. It's time for action.
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If we are going to use your silly analogy, the action that you are calling for is that the patient has all of their limbs amputated, is chemically castrated, and made blind. Oh and by the way, even then, it is still unlikely that the treatment will actually work.
In Greta Thunberg's speech, she talked about reducing global emissions by 50% within 10 years (something that will not happen, and if it did, would cause mass starvation and death) and yet she still proclaimed that that target was woefully unacceptable. The time for discussion to end is when someone actually proposes a plausible idea that will work.