Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,sci.physics,alt.checkmate Subject: Re: Climate change report 2018: watch how these US cities could change Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 12:41:42 -0700 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net dU4cXkA11LUI7w0/jif1cw4FOSzKn6OOgVDS6K/qVzHXXwkEjZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:zw/2eEeut1YAlH8LyBK9NUty2SI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com talk.politics.guns:1143729 sci.physics:717136 alt.checkmate:234290 On 12/7/18 12:24 PM, % wrote: > On 2018-12-07 12:04 p.m., Just Wondering wrote: >> On 12/7/2018 11:32 AM, Snit wrote: >>> Skeeter wrote: >>>> usenet@gallopinginsanity.com says... >>>>> >>>>> kensi wrote: >>>>>> The National Climate Assessment, a stunning report released by 13 >>>>>> federal agencies and the White House this month, showed that climate >>>>>> change has already had devastating impacts on our health and economy, >>>>>> and that costs could mount to hundreds of billions of dollars by >>>>>> the end >>>>>> of the century: >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/11/30/18117953/climate-change-report-2018-cities-2050 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> But change has always happened. Why should we as a species care >>>>> what harm >>>>> we do or how much undo impact this harm will have on those with the >>>>> fewest >>>>> resources? >>>>> >>>> We have no control. >>> >>> I think we can make choices. >> >> We choose to continue using fossil fuels. > > i don't Do you also back policies to reduce the general use? To charge the full cost of the harm with the products tied to it? -- Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.