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> World crisis! Quick! Give your money to or help elect these people! Save the world! Do it for the children.

Stupid. Nothing about this is quick. Climate scientists have told us for > 20 years. But sure let's post stupid bullshit on the internet and continue to do nothing.

I agree with everything you say here but feel the ">20 years" hides something.

We can easily say 30 years, there are very good arguments to say ~50 years and to get truly technical we could say 70-100 years.

Yes, I didn't want to spread false information because I'm no expert either. ~20 years is the time span I consciously remember reading & hearing about it but I'm sure scientists have warned us for much longer.

I remember worrying about this as a child, and I'm in my forties now. It's been a long, slow process.

I was studying this in uni 30 years ago.

There are general-interest educational videos on global warming from the 1950s:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=T6YyvdYPrhY

I prefer we don't do anything, so that people such as this can suffer so that future generations can learn from their foolishness.

Thanks for this amazing quoteable.

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