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Originally Posted by Arragonis
So stating that Peer Review is some kind of "gold standard" is obvious woo.
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Sure, it's simplistic. Consider it a shorthand for "Every part of the science gets repeatedly tested, often by engineers using the same principles in other fields. If you want to claim it doesn't, you need something a little bit better than 'I don't want it to be true, 'cause it'll upset my lifestyle,".
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And we have
- People without clean water
- People without enough to eat, including kids
- A first world which doesn't seem to care because we focus on this CO2 stuff.
And at the end you ignored my key question so I'll restate it - your kids vs. their's - which ones are more deserving of resources, make a choice.
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I don't have kids, so I can be perfectly neutral on these questions:
1) "People without clean water" So tell me, exactly how much of this non-clean water is in fact made not clean by the waste from fossil-fueled industry? And how is more fossil fuel use going to provide any significant amount of clean water?
And then we could get into clean air...
2) "People without enough to eat, including kids" - So again, how is continued fossil fuel use going to provide more food? Especially when one of the side effects of fossil fuel use is the ongoing degradation & destruction of productive land?
3) "A first world which doesn't seem to care because we focus on this CO2 stuff." And why do you think that? Putting aside the question of why we should care, some of us have been trying to deal with such problems for a couple of centuries. Is it our fault that the rest of the world (and a lot of the first world) just doesn't care about consequences?
As to which kids are more deserving... I think ALL kids deserve a chance at a decent life, and that's something they do not get when they're raised in a first-world urban feedlot.