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Re: The End of the World Thread
« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2019, 09:20:20 am »
You are not reading my arguments. I have never said that climate change is not happening. I am only arguing that the incessant stream of media stories trying to blame everything bad on climate change are wrong headed and a distraction. Climate may be a factor but other things which we actually have more control over are often bigger factors. For example, flood in Quebec may have been affected by climate change but a bigger factor may be land used changes where water that use to sink into the water table is being diverted via sewers and ditches into the rivers. Unlike CO2, land use is something we can actually do something about.

All those have nothing to do with climate change and it’s effects, they are just other examples of what we have got wrong. Do you plan on moving Richmond, much of Delta and the Fraser Valley? Ever been to Shanghai? Much of the worlds most productive farm land and hundreds of millions of people are located on river deltas. You claim to know the consequences of rising sea levels and changing climate and their costs but don’t think it is worthwhile lifting a finger to mitigate our part in them or even trying to slow them down. Humans emit 22 gigatons of CO2 that the world’s carbon cycle cannot absorb yet you think this can somehow go on forever without us doing anything. You are the one  guilty of the same blind faith you accuse others of. 
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