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Environment & Energy

Mickju

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3. Reluctantly, I agree with you.

Reply to The_jackalope (Original post)

Sat Aug 17, 2019, 03:49 PM

Aug 2019

Even if we stopped all fossil fuel emissions today the global temperature would keep rising to an unlivable level. We all know the emissions are not going to stop, in fact they keep rising.

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Do what you do [View all] The_jackalope Aug 2019 OP

That was an excllent observation and summation. Newest Reality Aug 2019 #1

FWIW I stopped writing about the problems in 2013, after coming to much the same conclusion. The_jackalope Aug 2019 #2

Reluctantly, I agree with you. Mickju Aug 2019 #3

So true. Delphinus Aug 2019 #7

Spare any more lives ending horribly, prematurely. Duppers Aug 2019 #4

Absolutely. The_jackalope Aug 2019 #5

That was Delphinus Aug 2019 #6

My ancestors all survived by being where the worst shit wasn't. hunter Aug 2019 #8

Great post. "In a crisis they do it more" Mike 03 Aug 2019 #9

One thing my wife and I didn't do is have lots of children as our parent's generation did. hunter Aug 2019 #10

"The earth sheds species as a tree sheds its leaves." The_jackalope Aug 2019 #11