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Can you give me an example of a scientifically demonstrated (not just speculated) consequence that we don't know how to deal with?

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Mass migration and civil war.

We have that throughout history and even today and yet we are still around. So again if that is what we are talking about I really don't see what exactly I should be so worried about.

You don't think we should try to avoid situations that will cause mass displacement and war, potentially on an unprecedented scale?

Yes and the best way to do that is to make poor nations richer which requires growth which will require more energy and thus more emission of CO2.

Yeah, we've only been dealing with those for 10,000 years. /s

The planet is much more crowded now and every piece of land is claimed by someone as owner. A mass migration won't be pretty. Just look at the Syria refugees and scale that up by lot.

Not very well we haven't.

And it causes misery and costs lives. Personally, I don't find "it won't be a mass extinction event" to be a convincing argument to ignore climate change.

Who is talking about ignoring it?

You seem to think the solution is to make things worse:

> Yes and the best way to do that is to make poor nations richer which requires growth which will require more energy and thus more emission of CO2 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18926331)

That's even worse than ignoring it.

No my solution is to look at both the positives and the negatives and since you or anyone else haven't been able to show a single piece of scientifically demonstrated evidence that the consequences are going to be impossible for us to deal with then I choose to prioritize poor nations chance to grow more wealth over unproven, unscientific and hysterical speculation.

Alright, I'll probably get warned or downvoted for this, but here it goes...

Stop sea-lioning.

What about you start actually commenting on things I have said rather than just making things up?

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