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The pole is in reference to the most important problem facing humanity. There are many problems, it's more about what is the most important of them fo...

Yes, if the issue of urgency is key in this vote, it is obviously climate change, because it is existential and the scientists say we need to tackle i...

Yes, I agree with everything you say here. I think that not only is there inertia in many of the areas which do require rapid change. But there is als...

So you are describing a fraternity, a social group following a prescribed lifestyle which works on a local scale across borders. Great I live in a sim...

I'm surprised at the choices, isn't it obvious that climate change is the most pressing, after all with our current population and with many governmen...

Well Johnson will be back from his champagne fuelled celebrations on the Island of Mustique with his billionaire friends tomorrow. Presumably he will ...

I agree, I was pointing out that plastic is a stable form of carbon and so can be laid down in seams like seams of coal and burnt, or whatever, at a l...

I agree, this why it is important that we in the UK root out the endemic anti socialist ideology in the media and the people who take it as read that ...

I find myself in almost total agreement with Bitter Crank politically, which in itself is remarkable as we live in different worlds on different conti...

I think plastics can be stored in landfill and processed later, although it is an important issue, it is not contributing a lot directly to climate ch...

Yes, investors are just dipping their toes in so far. Some corporations have gone further. But there is a worry amongst start up companies that govern...

No you're missing the point (apparently), in a war it's actually the solder on the ground who does the killing and perpetuating the conflict. The cowa...

Touché

Essentially yes, given the hot house scenario described by Boethius. It might be more like a late Bronze Age, or a medieval level of technology, depen...

There is evidence that capital has seen the light. Mark Carney the out going head of the Bank of England, soon to become the UN special envoy for clim...

I was referring to general world climate as we have had for the last few hundred years. Anyway I was asking in the same paragraph what you meant by "f...

I would think that conditions not to dissimilar to what we have now would be the closest we could come to ok (or are you saying that this is also not ...

I didn't hear it anywhere in particular, I just thought it obvious. When I've looked into it, there is acknowledgement that changes in climate might a...

Like the Deccan traps for example, which has been considered as a possible cause for the demise of the dinosaurs. You are displaying your naivety here...

Ditto.

Quite, philosophy etc is peripheral in our world. All that counts in terms of the direction we go forward in is capitalist profit (and by extension co...

Perhaps you didn't delve all that deeply into New Age philosophy. It is considered that the long term role of humanity is to be custodians of the plan...

Yes, there is an important circulation in the North Atlantic called the Gulf Stream, or North Atlantic Drift. It's quite possible that this could stop...

Both, they have the power to approve it, to subsidise it, to negotiate with investors and constructors. To insure it, take responsibility for decommis...

I agree about fusion, there is a lab in the UK which has achieved it, but on a tiny scale. To scale up and catch the energy in a reliable way is as ye...

This reminds me of your faith in the adaptability of humanity. I don't have such faith, faith in highly populous civilisations to make systemic change...

Yes it's a publicity stunt for the issues they are concerned with. There is no need for any intellectual content, the intellectual argument has alread...

Unfortunately I feel powerless, even if I were to shout it from the roof tops, or glue myself to the Houses of Parliament, no one would listen, becaus...

Interestingly, on the radio I am listening to right now, is Greta talking to Sir David Attenborough, a testament to how important this issue is. I hea...

Interesting point, this is something I have considered. All the people I know who are sceptical of climate change, or the appropriate response to the ...

I can't quite work out what you are denying. You are both saying that humans are adaptable and resourceful, while also saying that they are not going ...

The US project Iceworm has become exposed from the ice cap now. It turns out that the whole ice cap moves, flows like a glacier, which is why they aba...

We'll be socialist swine by then. The Capitalists will have ripped us off and gone their bunkers by that point.

In the UK, it is the government who provided financial incentives for the installation of onshore wind turbines, they then removed them and stopped gi...

Its weird isn't it that all these folk like me are coming up with this domesday cult ourselves individually and yet the message is identical each time...

Well I would advise you to sell up before the market confidence in sea level real estate disappears. I have recently moved to 56m and now I'm confiden...

Perhaps an irreversible cascade of greenhouse gas emissions is more appropriate. I expect to the folk on the ground the distinction would be of little...

And what is the elevation of your house (assuming you are a home owner)?

Is that because of human resilience in adversity, or that climate change won't be that bad after all?

"Humanity's eviction notice"

So what is your synopsis?

So you are optimistic that we can somehow pull through without a collapse of civilisation and a return to medieval feuding warlords. I would like to s...

I didn't think that you hadn't talked about, rather you had not mentioned the elephant in the room. Also again you didn't mention what I referred to. ...

I'm not qualified to give a health check on the US. But I have a sense that things have gone a bit awry since the development of globalisation. I can ...

So the people in question will move into these inland cities. I think the residents might have something to say about that. At the same time if some o...

But you are attempting to undermine my position while not engaging. What's that about?

Surely all I need to do is add one other factor, which I was hinting at when I asked the question about where do the people who live in cities, which ...

It seems to me that the greatest threat certainly following the first great catastrophe, or economic collapse is from other humans. There will be a ra...

Agreed, there are other tipping processes which have been identified, I'm no expert though. One I was thinking of is the acidification of the oceans c...

Yes, I agree about survivalism. Your suggestion that such behaviour is only necessitated by great global catastrophes, is I fear over optimistic. Such...