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It seems a lot of the debate centers around whether climate change is happening, or whether it's manmade or a natural cycle.

But assuming it IS happening and it IS because of us, what exactly would the solution be?

Enact policies to curb carbon emissions and encourage the development of alternative energy sources (aside: why do all you global warming hippies geek over solar and wind and not suggest the obvious pragmatic tech of nuclear power?)? Do we force other countries to do the same? Go to war over it?

It seems a lot of the debate centers around whether climate change is happening, or whether it's manmade or a natural cycle. But assuming it IS happening and it IS because of us, what exactly would the solution be? Enact policies to curb carbon emissions and encourage the development of alternative energy sources (aside: why do all you global warming hippies geek over solar and wind and not suggest the obvious pragmatic tech of nuclear power?)? Do we force other countries to do the same? Go to war over it?

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A one-world government sounds like science fiction to me - more likely every country would implement it's own solutions to meet a standard acceptable to the international community (or its more powerful members).

I have serious doubts about whether our current political systems are capable of doing that.

A realistic one-world government might be the US forcefully dominating everyone else, but that probably wouldn't help, as the current US political system is too corrupted by corporations to be able to act on global warming.

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So is all this manmade climate change stuff you post constantly just a giant blackpill for you? Why concern yourself with it if it's bound to happen and we can't stop it? It's like worrying about the inevitable heat death of the universe.

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The stuff I post is reporting of scientific facts... for me the truth is important whether or not we can do anything about it in the end. I am pessimistic but cannot tell the future, perhaps we'll somehow manage some sort of collective response...

The heat death of universe is quite a long way off - climate change is having real effects now, and will have much larger effects on our children. Of course the planet will merrily rebound in a few million years, so that's nice.

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Alright. Just wondering. Most people who are concerned with climate change want some kind of action to be taken, like a credit program for carbon emissions (in our country), but fail to take into account the consequences and ineffectiveness of such an action.

At least you're not one of those paper straw people.