RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116346848141590494
People like to forget that fighting climate change is about _saving human lives_ and not about saving Earth.
Even if it's 20 degrees higher or 20 degrees lower on average, Earth will do fine, life will do fine, nature will be fine—but humans won't be fine.
@LaChasseuse there were multiple points in the last 500 million years alone when the global temperature was >20ºC than today
before that fluctuations were even more extreme (but life wasn't as highly evolved yet)
(Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3705)
@joenash @LaChasseuse people care about neither
many don’t even care when it affects at them personally and directly, like the people whose children are dying from measles and they say “I still wouldn’t have vaccinated my child”
crooked worldviews are a thing that needs to be destroyed, it cannot be argued away
@thomasfuchs I once asked a man who said he wasn't going to make any lifestyle changes due to runaway climate change how he could think about leaving such a world for his children and he said "Well, that will be their problem to solve, not mine."
His own kids, his own grandchildren.
@Wifiwits You hear a lot of crazy stuff when you're out campaigning. But I comfort myself with the knowledge that people often say things like that in an argument/discussion, but they don't really mean it. Not in a real life circumstance. And sometimes opponents go away from a discussion and come round to your way of thinking later.
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