• applemao@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Glaciers have been melting and reforming since the earth existed, we aren’t special. The climate goes through stages

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      2 hours ago

      I guess the current ‘stage’ is human-induced ecological collapse. Just another chapter in the earth’s story.

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      4 hours ago

      I get that we aren’t special and the earth will be here, but we are responsible for accelerating green house gasses by pulling it out of the ground. The cycle is going too fast for the other life on earth to adapt. In the past, like the cold that caused the dark ages was because of volcanoes and so on.

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      14 hours ago

      Human bodies slowly die over the course of 75ish years, so by your logic if you see someone stabbing the shit out of someone there is no reason to stop it because naturally they are going to die anyway and we shouldn’t take any action to stop the person from dying?

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      17 hours ago

      Ok so lets just go with it So The earth goes through cycles where it becomes uninhabitable for humans. You think we should just let it happen?

      This is the dumb shit about the climate deniers arguments. Even if you don’t think humans are causing it, we should be working towards preserving earth in a state that humans are acclimated to. Fund climate research and ways to SLOW change if nothing else.

      Brain damaged.

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      18 hours ago

      This is like saying, “people die, that happens.”

      Yes… But the average lifespan is around 78 years, not 4.

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      Our short lived civilizations and their survival, and our much much shorter lives and the lives of our direct descendants, can’t be stretched to fit into geological timescales. So I’m not really seeing the point you’re trying to make if there even is one.

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      17 hours ago

      Yeah, but we’re causing this stage of heading towards making it no longer able to sustain life for us humans.