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Originally Posted by redpoint5
For those who deny economics - how do you explain the facts?
How do you explain highest life expectancy in world history?
How do you explain most wealth per capita than ever?
How do you explain more leisure time than ever?
How do you explain lowest violent mortality than ever?
How do you explain ever decreasing rates of hunger?
How do you explain declining child labor?
How do you explain lowest percent of income spent on food than ever?
How do you explain increasing rates of formal education?
How do you explain literacy at an all time high?
It's not clear that increasing levels of CO2 pose a serious threat to any of the typical ways in which we measure human well-being.
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It's not clear that increasing levels of CO2 do not pose a serious threat to any of the typical ways in which we measure human well-being?
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The cost of what you call the 'typical ways' we measure human well being may be the habitability of the planet we all live on.
It will be the effects of increasing levels of CO2 that pose a serious threat,not the CO2.(context)
Increasing levels of heat pose no threat to someone already dead from heat exposure.
A complete diet of deep-fried butter cannot alter the life expectancy of a morbidly-obese person already on the brink of a massive heart attack.
And as economists are want to say,'the closer you are to death,the less more life you have,but there's still more.'
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There's a growing body of observed, empirical evidence, which suggests, with high confidence,a probability that we have only limited time to arrest,and reverse greenhouse gas emissions,or it will be a global existential situation we're facing.
And in the context of a single human lifetime,these effects will be irreversible.