/r/climatechange used to be an interesting sun to have rational discussions on evidence based news and papers on climate change. This thread for instance was made specifically to tackle the most anxious worst case scenario alarmists.
https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/aqdmbz/im_afraid_climate_change_is_going_to_kill_me_help/
Up until a year ago the sub treated Climate Change on a similar way as the scientific community did, a very serious global problem that will cause the unnecessary deaths of millions and displacement of dozens of millions not to mention the costs caused by damage and rising sea levels.
Some examples
https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/k1vyxo/scared_and_uncertain_about_collapse/
>In my opinion /r/collapse is not a credible source for information about climate change. The users of the subreddit hardly ever seem to caution their statements with evidence, sources, or citations to the scientific literature, and much of it is simply just slippery-slope argumentation with the predetermined goal of claiming that civilization will collapse in the next few years. If you want to learn about climate science I would suggest you look for sources that have some kind of academic credentials in a relevant field, and most importantly who cite their claims directly from the published literature. But that's just my opinion.
https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/cy8j91/prediction_by_extinction_rebellions_roger_hallam/
>Don't tell that to /r/collapse, they think it'll be 20 billion and the clathrate gun will boil us all alive.
https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/ynwqms/when_will_climate_change_end_the_world/
>It will create new challenges for humans for a new reason. Displacement not due to war but due to floods etc. Hunger due to climate change combining with the raft of other reasons people are now hungry. It will impact the poorest people in less developed countries the most, and the richest in the developed countries the least. The poor have far less buffer before they are impacted than the rich.
>Most people on Earth will be fine and it will just change the flavour of life as we know it, not stop us being sustained.
https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/j0saqd/is_overpopulation_really_not_a_big_deal_even_when/
However during the last few months the sub received an influx from /r/collapse and now they're favoring the fringiest of worst case scenarios to the point of claiming the human race will go extinct or that society will collapse in a couple of decades.
https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/16q4nwt/to_people_who_think_climate_change_will_cause/
>For example, phytoplankton make about 50% of our breathable oxygen. They die if the ocean pH gets too low or temperature gets too high. This is happening. It's therefore reasonable to assume the makeup of our atmosphere may exit the very fine balance required for humans to breathe.
>Don't forget about refugee crises, an increase in nationalist violence against immigrants, and also, RESOURCE WARS! It's not just gonna be some storms and flooding, there will be millions of refugees and billions in disaster relief, in addition to impacts on global supply chains.
>What leads you to believe we will survive?
>Did you notice how many people died in floods this year? Phoenix was 120 degrees half the summer. People can't survive that for long.
https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1bajchm/florida_and_climate_change/
Of course books like “Limits of Growth” have become mainstream among them
https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/190kil7/3040_years_ago_was_the_situation_the_world_is_in/
>The Limits to Growth was written in 1972 and modeled well what is happening.
>What? First of all, that repot does not even address the topic of climate change. But regardless of that, it's spectacularly wrong, demonstrably so. https://reason.com/2012/04/18/the-limits-to-growth-40-year-update/
Also “The Population Bomb”
>Check out the book, Population Bomb in 1968, foretold most of what is happening and why. People still don't see population growth as the #1 problem we face.
This is a book which predicted mass famines in India with hundreds of millions dead happening as early as the 1980s, subsequent editions changed that to the 2000s, the author is still alive and claims he was right about everything and continues to double down.
https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1bbdjdt/opinion_im_a_climate_scientist_if_you_knew_what_i/
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Climate change was important until I read that article about it doing 5% damage in global economic growth over 100 years. I don't think the believers have updated because they think of tradeoffs as "all-or-nothing" scenarios. Besides, we've already got a great solution: nuclear energy, but noooo because cute twink reasons, so I really can't take that crowd seriously.
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Fr, fr. If I was just half as certain as they claim to be of a climate disaster, I would be buying or moving far away from the city and learning how to farm and can food immediately, but for some reason they do the opposite. It's impossible for me to take it seriously when they themselves clearly don't.
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Like half of online climate activists are just wannabe authoritarians that use it as cudgel to give reason to disenfranchise the suburbs and rurals because they consider them to be their political enemies and they want the taxes that go to these areas to go to themselves for gibs.
They also think they can reeducate them if they force them to move to the city and assimilate with their culture to achieve a socialist paradise.
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It's such a shame since any socialist worth their meagre salt would advocate for far more effective energy production ( ) to reduce costs for the working man. Can't have a socialist endgame without easy access to energy. It's all downstream of it.
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I am friends with a lot of libshits. They all professed to believe in climate change and they lived in austin tx.
Anyways some snow came in and the temperatures dropped to 30 degrees for a few days. Everyone lost their minds nobody had a winter coat, a three day water supply, spare batteries or a basic emergency kit.
I was an otr trucker, had a camping stove, food/water cell phone battery sleeping bag and tent inside the truck just in case i had to bug out
Yeah the climate change is a hoax. Anyone claiming climate change is serious should have a shtf system and at least enough camping supplies for a week long backpacking trip
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There are outcomes between "it was a hoax all along" and "planet incinerated" you know. Nice outcomes that kinda suck but don't mean we get to quit our jobs and hunt squirrels.
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I mean they were all climate doomers yet wont take any personal steps to ensure basic safety from tornados or power outages or simply living at 30 degrees
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quit buggin neighbor
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Nuclear ?! No thanks ! Wind , solar , and bikes my guy ! As long as they don't block my million dollar view !
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I will give them nuclear, or I will go nuclear. These fools have no idea what's coming to them.
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Dubs of truth!
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Lol
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!slots200
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This is my party slogan:
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Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb them all!
I want a nuclear war!
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Homeless population rising?
Refugee camps overpopulated?
Gene pool is stagnant and lacks cool mutations?
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Dude nuclear lmao. Uranium grows on trees and is totes renewable The experts are just big oil shills, surely, that's why they ignore the perfect energy source that is Nuclear
Black Lives Matter
Report this post if you are straight and hate black ppl
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They're not incompetent. They just hate the plebs !chuds
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you can recycle nuclear fuel . Something like 90% of the energy in nuclear fuel goes to waste, and recycling fuel also reduces the amount of nuclear waste produced by consuming short-lived isotopes
Also it only takes a small amount of uranium to generate a lot of energy. A single uranium fuel pellet produces as much energy as a ton of coal
also there is a ton of uranium undergound in the US and Canada , probably enough to last a really long time
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There's literally millenia of Uranium in the earths crust. We could make energy dirt cheap until space travel advances enough to mine asteroids and we unlock fusion, but unfortunately we have decided to make people use paper straws and lower their standard of living.
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The only real problem with nuclear is that it takes a long time to build a plant. We have thousands of years of fissile material to work with.
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The part about climate change that makes me seethe is that the US taxpayer absolutely will be on the hook for bailing out Florida r-slurs and scammers who developed properties on sinking sand dunes 2" above sea level
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Nuclear is the inevitable path, why would a species stop expanding (how could it, even?) until every available resource is exhausted? The sooner we get on it the safer it will be when we inevitably start using it for the majority of our needs.
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this cracker doesnt like cool animals like polar bears or siberian tigers or cool fish that are gonna go extinct
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what the heck man
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