• a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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    1 year ago

    That telling people that they're all going to die of climate change is irresponsible and not backed by current models or projections?

    • DictatrshipOfTheseus [comrade/them, any]
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      1 year ago

      the "we're all going to die" was something someone else said if you're so caught up on that kind of ridiculous cringey pedantry, but what they were referring to was human extinction as a result of climate change. If you are truly incapable of understanding context or anything but the most literal and absolute interpretation of any combination of words ever used, your qualm is with them. No one, not even the person I was disagreeing with who said that, believes anyone was ever saying "every person reading this is going to die tomorrow and it is 110% absolutely unavoidable."

      What is being discussed here is climate change ending the species. Which remains a very real possibility, which is what I said, which is what everyone here who reads this, even you, knows is what is being discussed. It is not only NOT irresponsible to point out this very real possibility, it is irresponsible and foolish denialism to imply otherwise.

      Now kindly sod off, you bad-faith-arguing, asinine pedant. I won't be reading anything else you say to me.

      • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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        1 year ago

        "we're all going to die" was something someone else said

        Which you jumped in go defend as a reasonable position.

        What is being discussed here is climate change ending the species

        That's where we are now, but that is absolutely not where we were when I began this conversation several hours before you jumped in with a position that was not unambiguous enough to differentiate from the original doomer position.

        I'm sorry I'm being such a ball buster about this and I'm glad we agree about the probabilities of immediate extinction and the possibility of eventual extinction in the end, but I absolutely think it's important to be very precise about this and not unnecessarily blackpill people.