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> still we made it through, through the Roman and Viking warm periods

Yes, but not 8 billion of us living in vast cities with 80+ year life expectancies.

Are you prepared to live like a viking again?

Well, seeing as how I live on a 17th century farm in the Swedish countryside, heating the home with two wood-burning stoves and cooking on the same... Also, during the Viking age wine was made in Sweden. Greenland was called 'Greenland' because it was in actuality more green than it is now. When the warm period came to an end the settlements on Greenland were mostly abandoned, there were no more wine harvests in Sweden and eventually the world settled into the 'little ice age'.

Realise also that cold weather kills far more people than warm weather does [1]:

Cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather, according to an international study analyzing over 74 million deaths in 384 locations across 13 countries. The findings also reveal that deaths due to moderately hot or cold weather substantially exceed those resulting from extreme heat waves or cold spells. (source: The Lancet)

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520193831.h...

Yes, you are very lucky to live unbothered in a nice farm in an ideal place that with warmer climates will become even better agriculturally.

Now, I don't know if you've noticed, but the world is not entirely made up if rural Sweden

Of course I noticed. I noticed that the world has become a lot greener due to the increased CO₂ content in the atmosphere [1,2] which used to be seen as a good thing but somehow now is presented as a problem [3]. From Malthus to Gore, from the Silent Spring to Extinction Rebellion, eschatologists have been around for a long, very long time yet... Earth abides. Mankind abides.

[1] https://blog.creaf.cat/en/noticies-en/the-world-has-become-g...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/02/28/nasa-says...

[3] https://grist.org/climate-energy/earth-is-getting-greener-he...

You are strawmanning an opinion about a single metric.

Sure, molds are great for the environment! Molds in your lunchbox? not so much. You have built a whole narrative out of sparsely collected news pieces on a single issue.

Green is good for the environment because the plants absorb the CO2. You have cause and effect backwards.

Not to mention, you neglect the waves of climate refugees who will be on your farm's land as soon as their not-Sweden cannot produce the crops that your land provides.

1. How many people live in cold weather areas like rural Sweden?

2. How many live in warm weather areas like rural Bangladesh?

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