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emordnilap wrote:
Source pdf
Who wrote that report?
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emordnilap wrote:
vtsnowedin wrote:Those advocating leaving enough fossil fuels in place unburned to prevent a >+2C rise talk about it as if it could be accomplished without collapsing economies and precipitating the beginning of human population die off.
And those advocating continuance of fossil fuel burning?
Are jockeying for position to insure they and their children will be in the one billion that survive.
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biffvernon wrote:
emordnilap wrote:
Source pdf
Who wrote that report?
I can't tell you specifically but the partners are on the back cover.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
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vtsnowedin wrote:
emordnilap wrote:
vtsnowedin wrote:Those advocating leaving enough fossil fuels in place unburned to prevent a >+2C rise talk about it as if it could be accomplished without collapsing economies and precipitating the beginning of human population die off.
And those advocating continuance of fossil fuel burning?
Are jockeying for position to insure they and their children will be in the one billion that survive.
Shame evolution is blind, isn't it?
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
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emordnilap wrote:
vtsnowedin wrote:
emordnilap wrote: And those advocating continuance of fossil fuel burning?
Are jockeying for position to insure they and their children will be in the one billion that survive.
Shame evolution is blind, isn't it?
I don't know as it is when applied to humans with their problem solving ability.
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