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Lucky we have the doomsday cult to keep telling us the world is warming and will wipe out the animals in 100 year so let's not concern us with local problems.

In reality it has and always will be local.

And the solution has and will be for a few more decades use fossil fuels to help. (The doomsday cult sunk nuclear)

This applies to both the environment and if you have empathy, other humans.

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A member of the 'doomsday cult' here. From the West Coast, I see global warming out my window in the form of unprecedented wildfire, in part caused by warming and related drying out of the landscape. Denial doesn't fix this problem.

> In part caused by warming and related drying out of the landscape.

Nope. Maybe a small part than makes it happen at best 10% more often. But insignificant. You and those around you are worth well more than 10% than your parents.

You could have managed it locally at a state level, through education, prevention, preparation, treatment, mitigation, harm minimisation and repair but you didn't.

It's on you. You chose big screen TV's and pretending recycling matters instead.

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