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[–] ivanafterall 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then I guess you guys have no use for this climate change reversal machine I made. I knew it was a shit idea. I'm so stupid. I'm scrapping it now.

[–] III 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Might I suggest you use the time machine you created to go back and talk yourself out of making the climate change reversal machine. I can think of nothing worse than for you to feel like you are stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We shit on redditors for being arrogant and having grating personalities.

Yet it's ridiculously common to come into a thread here and see it flooded with low effort "well duh!" Comments.

Lemmings apparently know everything and everything is obvious to them.

Which doesn't even make sense here. A lot of smart people are dumping money into carbon capture as a way to offset what we've done. Yet here you are, so smart, that this is obviously wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (26 children)

Most problems would simply not be a problem if we drastically reduce the human population. Which would not only avoid the issues caused by climate change but also would prevent further increases in pollution and CO2 emissions.

I don't know why the best solution is often the less talked about. Just stop having so many children. We don't have 70% infant mortality rate like we used to, there's no need to have 4 kids to preserve your legacy.

[–] Jacob_Mandarin 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah. Thanos should simply have made half of all living beings gay. Much less violent and this would probably also make future generations more likely to be gay too. So it‘ll probably have a much more longlasting effect than killing 50% once.

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[–] Jackthelad 15 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Do people seriously think we could "reverse" climate change?

That's not how the climate works.

[–] Buffalox 35 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Remember it used to be called global warming, because that's what's actually happening. But morons thought a cold winter day disproved global warming, so it was renamed climate change.
And yes we can reverse global warming, but obviously that won't recreate polar or mountain ice, or lower sea levels quickly, but we can get the temperature down to stop it first, which will also curb the increase in natural disasters, then the restoring of sea levels and ice will take at least decades and probably centuries.

[–] qqq 9 points 2 days ago

Hm I always remember hearing this:

In a confidential memo to the Republican party, Luntz is credited with advising the Bush administration that the phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favour of "climate change", which he called a "less frightening" phrase than the former.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/27/americans-climate-change-global-warming-yale-report

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[–] undergroundoverground 5 points 2 days ago

Are you trying to tell me that the spirit of capitalism won't return to us, dressed in the splendor of new technology, to absolve us of our past planetary transgressions, and take us to a new, perfect place amongst the stars where we will live in profit and harmony for ever?

Well, thats the second time I've fallen for that story......

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