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Not one single government cares so much about it tho.

Higher temperatures will free up soil for agriculture in upper and lower latitudes. With luck, population size will keep increasing then for those countries and also quality of life

Coastal cities can fight it, at least some to some degree.

If we get fusion between our lifetimes, things are going to get even better

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Not one single government cares so much about it tho.

Way to generalise, bro. There are some low lying island states that are going to disappear under the rising sea levels. I think they are taking it pretty seriously.

Don’t bullshit please.

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If people and government really cared that much about it, we all would be living in a totalitarian planetary government, controlling by the milligram every expense that is not calorically viable to post culling population of billions.

Either or they ALL would be pumping up so much nuclear centrals that we be drowning on the almost free energy

Either that, or they ALL would be pushing for the creation and implementation of a totally viable lunar base to construct a full orbital cache of microwave solar emitters, with the accompanying swarm of orbital mirrors to reduce the sun’s impact on the atmosphere

We see advance in neither of those

So yeah who’s bullshitting who. I know they don’t care and don’t have to pretend like they do

Your pathological need to believe a blatant lie due to your own powerlessness? That’s all on you

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Meth. Not even once.

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Earth has been around for 4.5 million years. Humans have only been around for 300,000 years approximately. With only a few hundred years of the industrial age.

Would a few hundred years really cause an extinction event?

That’s interesting to think about… Perhaps it’ll take a few hundreds/thousand years to fix. If it can be fixed… Or we get hit by an asteroid first…

Between cutting down all of the trees and other pollutants, like these so called environmentalists flying around in their own private jets, it’ll be fun for a while.

Either the humans will die off due to global warming/runaway greenhouse effect before interstellar travel is achieved, or the humans will die off due to the suns transformation into a red giant before interstellar travel is achieved.

IDK. Either way, we won’t be here for long. But the earth will be long after us.

Will technology save the human race beyond the two inevitable events? Probably not.

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I assume that the red giant sun engulfing the earth will produce enough drag that earth loses momentum and falls into the sun permanently. We’ll still be gone by then, but noting is forever, even the earth itself.

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Yes , you’re right. The red giant will consume the Earth.

We won’t be alive if there’s a mass Exodus from earth, but is that even possible?

Probably not

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Venus does have a lot of valuable materials, this could be a good thing.

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I’d rather live somewhere habitable than somewhere with “valuable materials”.

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I can’t wait to see the shareholder value.

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Venusforming earth is a lot like terraforming mars, it’s just hard to reach. If 200 years ago we were able to easily reach mars, we would have fucked up that too

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They say do what you know best.

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