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The smartest thing man can do is learn to live with it rather than trying to reverse it.
Why is that smartest? If you can defend that claim, it would be fresh and interesting and get a lot of well-deserved attention.
Man vs. Nature? Nature wins. Always.
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RE: End of an Ice Age ... or maybe it's God's Fault?
There's a point of idiocy with proclaiming man has everything to do with rising temperatures.
There would be if anyone were claiming that. On the other hand, the argument that environmentalists are presumptuous, even arrogant, for supposing that humans can have a significant effect on the environment is silly, but more importantly it's provably wrong.
The smartest thing man can do is learn to live with it rather than trying to reverse it.
Why is that smartest? If you can defend that claim, it would be fresh and interesting and get a lot of well-deserved attention.
How do "we", including billions of people already near famine in undeveloped areas, learn to live with it?
How stupid would we look centuries from now when all the global cooling pundits are complaining that we're entering a new ice age because man has altered the climate to counter rising temperatures?
Probably really smart. Centuries from now we'll have at least the same tools we do now, and we'll be glad we didn't wipe out millions of people back in the 2020s.
You're not thinking clearly about causality and ethics. We have power. We can use it. You're proposing, metaphorically, that we keep playing with matches and just learn to live with it if our house is on fire. Because how silly will we look in a week if there's fire extinguisher foam on the sofa?
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