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Old 06-13-2024, 12:56 PM   #1487 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
Everything on Earth evolved for the atmosphere which existed around 150-years ago. That would be today's target.
Everything alive today, is adapted to the environment today, by definition.

Faith that the ideal CO2 concentration was magically 150 years ago, back when it was barely enough to support photosynthesis, is the magical thinking.

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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is instructive.
The ability for any population to exist is fundamentally undergirded by the presence of physiological needs being met:
* Water
* Food
* Shelter
* Bare necessities
which are disappearing for hundreds of millions of those who can do little or nothing to change their immediate circumstances. Which will become billions.
I question where you get your "news", because humanity has been defeating poverty at an accelerating rate for the past 150 years. That would be considered an aspect of human flourishing.

People are worse off because of CO2 is fake news.

https://worldpoverty.io/
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