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In reply to the discussion: I am a Climate Change (human caused) agnostic. [View all]dawg
(10,622 posts)I was just attempting to make the point to the OP that we cannot just "cold turkey" stop 100% of emissions and expect anything less than an economic catastrophe followed by wars and massive starvation.
The solution is a worldwide framework that will reduce emissions to tolerable levels. I favor some sort of cap and trade mechanism, but others favor a carbon tax and I don't have a major problem with that either.
For what it's worth, I don't think we are capable of raising the global temperature sufficient to cause the extinction of most land-based species. (Unless, perhaps, we were trying to do that on purpose.) I could be wrong about that, but life has been proven to be highly adaptable in the past, and I have no doubt that it will continue to be so in the future. But we are certainly working toward the demise of our technological civilization and the decimation (probably literally) of our population. And that would be very bad.