Reply #53: You seem to adhere to the view that humans can't affect

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climate on a global level. The consensus among climatologists is that we can, and do. Our activities, such as greenhouse gas emissions, massive deforestation, or overfishing, etc, are now conducted on scales that have planet-scale impact.

It's also true that these kind of events have (and will) occur independent of human activities, but the fact remains that now *we* are causing, or augmenting, such events on the planetary scale.

That isn't a reason to give up, or assume the end of the world. But it is a reason to take responsibility for the things we do.

And I also agree that we can choose to use this power to try and make things better, instead of just allowing them to get worse.