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In reply to the discussion: The thing keeping us from fighting global warming is that TPTB won't listen to us. [View all]OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)3. I think resignation is a larger problem
Some are genuinely ignorant. Thats a problem, with a solution.
Some are skeptics who choose not to believe.
However (in my observation) far too many grasp the problem, but are resigned to what they see as fate. (Among these are the crowd who repeat as a mantra, The Earth will be just fine
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The thing keeping us from fighting global warming is that TPTB won't listen to us. [View all]
GliderGuider
Dec 2012
OP
“If we don't kill ourselves, we will likely kill many (if not all) of the other species currently…”
OKIsItJustMe
Dec 2012
#25
I tend to side with Daniel Quinn and Jared Diamond when it comes to farming.
GliderGuider
Dec 2012
#16
Well, first off, I don’t see a way to avoid carbon capture and sequestration at this point
OKIsItJustMe
Dec 2012
#21
You know… Freeman Dyson actually made a decent point about the Keeling Curve
OKIsItJustMe
Dec 2012
#32
“Pulling CO2 back out of the air might be easier than building jets and cars that don’t emit it.”
OKIsItJustMe
Dec 2012
#33
Yes, most people would say we can't have an immediate end to all fossil fuel use
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2012
#17