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the only thing that really worries me is humanity going back to pre-modern technology levels, this time with full-on communism added for good measure, all in the name of climate protection.

otherwise i find climate change to be something that prepares us for colonising other places: planets and climates change; 300 million years ago Venus was the place to be, today it's Earth, tomorrow it will be the outer planets, specifically their satellites. we weren't really aware of these changes, especially their magnitudes. climate change brought it all out. it's up to us to learn from it so that we can control it. especially for the moment when we will unshackle ourselves from this solar system.

yes, i am extremely optimistic about the human race.




"It's up to us to learn from it so we can control it"

We do control climate change. What we do not control today is our society and our ability to enact political choices that would change our course.


> We do control climate change.

Let me make this very clear: we do not control climate change.




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