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That article in that post is about the ill effects of rising CO2 levels. It says plants will, overall, have more photosynthesis and use less water, but that there were many other worse consequences that counteract those benefits.
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We're at 400ppm now, which is still extremely low in historic terms. Back when dinosaurs had the planet, CO2 concentration was 1,000-2,000ppm, and they managed to survive despite being the dumb ancestors to birds.
It's preposterous to think dumb dinosaurs could thrive at temperatures and CO2 concentrations way higher, but our species who have figured out how to live in any environment, will fail.
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Ironically dinosaurs died from climate change, which is what's happening. It's not that the plants and animals on the Earth can't survive if it's a bit different than now, as long as things are relatively constant so life can adapt. It's the abrupt change from one to the other that can pose a threat to certain species and cause weather disruptions that we, and plant and animal life, were not prepared for.
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Not a single person will be on their death bed recalling how awful losing a child in a car accident, a brother to diabetes, and now succumbing to cancer was bad, but not nearly the horror of global warming. Not one, ever.
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What? Just because you don't care doesn't mean I don't, and/or vice versa.