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Climate change is simple: David Roberts at TEDxTheEvergreenStateCollege (Original Post)
Quixote1818
Mar 2013
OP
I think he hits the correct level of alarm. Very alarmed, but not quite yet a full panic. nt
limpyhobbler
Mar 2013
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chknltl
(10,558 posts)1. Climate change 101, strongly recommended. nt
Zax2me
(2,515 posts)2. I still think it is embellished for money.
Natural warming. Natural cooling.
Man mad warming.
Man made cooling.
Green energy has turned into an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
I just don't see why so much money has to be spent in 'cutting back' energy use.
We should be saving money, not spending hundreds of billions more.
Greedy corporations are now involved and turned it into a money thing.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)3. I think he hits the correct level of alarm. Very alarmed, but not quite yet a full panic. nt
Quixote1818
(28,942 posts)4. You and I will probably be fine. It's our grand children and great grand children I worry about...
Also poor countries living on the coasts. They are probably doomed in the next 50 years. The world will survive and so will humans. The world has seen a lot worse but a lot of people, animals and plants will suffer and die in the coming centuries if nothing is done.