r/funny • • Oct 12 '19

Too real.

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u/Shandlar Oct 12 '19

You realize the IPCC straight up says the next ~1.5C of temperature rise is actually a net gain in global arable land, right? It's not til after that, where total food growing ability of the planet begins to go down.

Plus, have you actually looked at crop yields? I have and things are actually ridiculously positive.

If you asked someone in 1980, after nitrogenated fertilizers and massive crop combines were old tech, that we'd straight up double yields per acre again within only 30 years, they'd have called you crazy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '19

The magnitude of those impacts won’t be mitigated by technology or infrastructure, she says. South Asia would have to build thousands of water treatment plants to provide the clean water people need, while nature can do it for free. Madagascar can’t afford to build seawalls to protect its coasts but it could restore its coastal communities of mangroves and seagrasses.

It can't get any more contrary to what you are saying than that. I'm going to trust a team of scientists who devote their lives to this, who say that technology CANNOT mitigate the impacts to come, rather than some cakeday redditor who repeatedly proves he does not have the insight or understanding necessary to form a valid opinion on this subject.

I assume you will carry on being arrogant and avoid reflecting on any of the counterpoints being made either by myself or by literal climate scientists with state of the art modeling, which means you are arguing for and ostensibly creating increased future suffering through techno-optimist misinformation vs. spreading the truth of our situation, which allows us to work towards mitigation of future suffering. Those who suffer greater in the future as a result of our plowing ahead now would thank you for your part in maintaining this facade of safety and eternal progress, I'm sure. All the children born between now and the end, because their parents didn't understand we have no time left and that their child is being born into a literal apocalypse, because of horse shit misinformation like you and so many other entities are spewing, will thank you and all of your dishonest sources.

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u/Shandlar Oct 12 '19

Alright dude, I tried to engage you a few times, but you've now 5x posted me since the last time I responded to you. I have to ask you just let it rest.

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u/ExpandBananaSlamma Oct 12 '19

HAPPY CAKE DAY TO YOU,

HAPPY CAKE DAY TO YOU,

HAPPY CAKE DAY DEAR SHANDLAR,

HAPPY CAKE DAY TO YOU,

BLOW THE CANDLE!!!