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What's everyone's official opinion on the effect of human impact on earths climate, the fact that greenhouse emissions have exploded since the beginning of industrialization and the fact that average global temperatures are rising exponentially since, as is the sea level?

I think it's pretty obvious and believe that these two facts are interconnected, it's our impact on the climate and I think there is little chance for us turning it around, if any.

The main reason why I think there is no way going back is our society's social and economic order based purely on consumerism, which is doomed to crumble sooner or later, for our generation rather sooner then later.
To turn the clock around we would have to make some ground-breaking changes to the way we live, to our global mentality and the way we see ourself as a being on this planet, which I don't see happening before some cataclysmic natural events drastically reduce our population.

Now I don't believe in a doomsday scenario aka 2012, but I believe our impact on earths climate is going to come to haunt us as a species, taking down many many other species on the way.
Most probably not in our lifetime though, but we will see more and more signs of it with every decade to come.
I even think the intensity and frequency of recent volcanic and seismic activity is picking up and intensifying too, let alone disastrous floods, bush fires, hurricanes and whatnot.

Whatever way you look at it, be it divine intervention or natural selection, you end up with a moral dilemma, to do something and end up achieving next to nothing while sacrificing some sort of a "quality of living", or to do nothing, just wait and see?

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osirus2020

I really don't know what to believe.

On one hand, the way we affect our immediate surroundings is considerable compared to the impact other creatures have that. It wouldn't surprise me if we are damaging the climate. But then on the other hand, the center of our planet is molten, liquid, rock. And Earth certainly does not have the history of being warm, or even suitable to support life as we know it.

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espiex

It seems likely that human activities are affecting the global climate. Sure there's a lot of air and water and earth out there, but it's a massive chaotic system with all kinds of feedback loops which can amplify or drown out what we do.

The Earth will go on, and life will find a way through. But humans have got some serious issues to sort out, starting with population growth and figuring out how to produce clean, abundant energy without destroying ourselves, before getting off this rock and having a look around the galaxy.

I don't like our chances tbh

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JcP

our impact is minimal in the grand scheme of things.

the problem is it takes a MINISCULE shift to make the planet uninhabitable for our species.

So objectively: not much impact.
subjectively: we're killing ourselves.

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I think regardless of the 'facts' the human game is getting way fucked up, and we're taking too much from the Earth, hot or cold, shits getting grim and grimmer by the minute.

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kamikazi89

i remember reading a short story decades ago in a sci fi magazine and the only trees people saw were hologram projections emanating from notepad computers...

everyone should build a terrarium then pump it with carbon, see what happens to the vegatation

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