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This attitude basically says "everything was perfect 100 years ago, and any change to that is going to make things worse".

Since the climate has always been changing, and 100 years ago we were coming out of the "little Ice Age"... why was that so perfect?

There must be some changes from global warming that are beneficial, surely?

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Yes, biologically speaking, most hings were perfect 100 years ago. Because most of the planet was in an equilibrium. Any rapid change from that is making things worse for some time. We are changing the climate faster than the system can adapt to. This doesn't exclude that some things might get better long term, but short term (a century or more), it is mostly bad.

The speed of abrupt change may be lethal to 90%+ of life as we know it unless we slow it down without causing an Ice Age.

[citation needed]

Not trying to be snarky, but I see claims like this all the time (and not just about climate change), and nobody seems to provide a reputable source for said claims. Cite your source, just like you were in school.

https://ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment#5-By%...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfcDmtGa9I

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