10-28-2015: CNBC GOP Debate

DarkJello · Nov 10, 2015

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The climate change we have now is an issue of social fairness. Rich countries will be able to deal with the immediate changes, whereas third world countries will mostly suffer the consequences.
This is, at least, the short term impact of climate change.

The major issue is that the climate change and human invention greatly reduces biodiversity all over the world. It is widely believed that we may be heading towards the sixth big mass extinction event, or that we already are in it.
This is a tricky issue: The massive loss of biodiversity we are currently experiencing has no immediate or direct consequences. That does not imply there are no consequences at all; there may be some butterfly effects which may lead to global chaos, or there may be not. With our current understanding of nature and the inherent complexity of ecosystems, there is just no way of simulating the outcome of the current processes.

Those two points make it easy to ignore climate change for many of us. The threat is abstract, and nobody can say for certain or even with a satisfying amount of certainty what will happen. And for now, all that will happen will most likely only affect the poor.
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Fair points, as per usual. (Yes, I am being serious). I shall ponder the matter further.

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