> Insulting half of the political structure isn't going to help anything
Bear in mind that having 'half of the political structure' maintaining prescientific views re our planet's climate systems has become quite eccentric in 2019 - the US and Australia being the worst offenders. Most of the rest of the world has moved on from outright primitivism to mere obfuscation. Which is some kind of progress, but not enough. Anyway, at this stage the US far right Republican party is now enough of a worldwide laughing stock for insults to potentially be worthwhile. At some point there's a chance that half the US citizenry may come to see themselves reflected back as obscurantist and backward.
> Climate change isn't a new phenomenon. The earth wasn't this magical garden of eden with perfect climate just for us
No, but agricultural civilisation emerged from a background of a relatively stable climate. The range of possible near-term consequences of our current GHG gas emissions include (at scary probabilities, rising as new research comes in) ones that all but eliminate large scale agriculture. This has not been faced in the last 10k years, not with a 7-12 billion population, and not with the additional insults of soil and fresh water loss, habitat destruction, insect population collapses etc. Most ecological scientists are pretty terrified of what's coming at us at this point.
Bear in mind that having 'half of the political structure' maintaining prescientific views re our planet's climate systems has become quite eccentric in 2019 - the US and Australia being the worst offenders. Most of the rest of the world has moved on from outright primitivism to mere obfuscation. Which is some kind of progress, but not enough. Anyway, at this stage the US far right Republican party is now enough of a worldwide laughing stock for insults to potentially be worthwhile. At some point there's a chance that half the US citizenry may come to see themselves reflected back as obscurantist and backward.
> Climate change isn't a new phenomenon. The earth wasn't this magical garden of eden with perfect climate just for us
No, but agricultural civilisation emerged from a background of a relatively stable climate. The range of possible near-term consequences of our current GHG gas emissions include (at scary probabilities, rising as new research comes in) ones that all but eliminate large scale agriculture. This has not been faced in the last 10k years, not with a 7-12 billion population, and not with the additional insults of soil and fresh water loss, habitat destruction, insect population collapses etc. Most ecological scientists are pretty terrified of what's coming at us at this point.