I was talking to a friend about global warming (or climate change since they can’t keep the name straight since it keeps going against the predictions) who I never took for an alarmist and the argument he kept bringing up was the fact that if all the things they predict come to pass, then his life and the life of his family was in peril. I asked him as a historian how he could even presume that humans would die out because of dramatic climate, since Humans had lived though countless climate changes in the past. He agreed that Humanity would survive but he was more afraid of what would happen to him.
Then I went and read some of the questions and answers on this site and I see a startling pattern… They usually have to do with the person’s own survival and not the actual future of mankind.
Now my friend is a really brilliant person and I know that he is very logical and rational, but he was genuinely afraid of dieing… Is that what keeps people sticking with this theory?
2007-10-12
21:12:24
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Stone K
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