We are missing one of the most important points here.
It doesn't MATTER whether global warming is caused by humans or not.
If it's just part of Earth's natural cycle, *that doesn't mean it's safe.* Earth's natural cycle included the friggin' Ice Age. Nature can kill us just as easily as we can.
If it is caused by humans, *that doesn't mean we can stop it.* We are probably too late. Turning global warming around at this point would require everyone in every developed country to make big personal sacrifices that we can't realistically expect them to make, no matter how much we believe they should.
Global warming is definitely happening. The weather is setting records all over the place. Anyone who tells you that the climate has gone a decade without changing, or has actually cooled, is cherry-picking a decade when there were a lot of volcanoes releasing ash into the atmosphere, or some such. The overall trend is unquestionably a change, and a frightening one.
WE NEED TO PREPARE FOR THE WORST. Why is nobody building self-sufficient underground shelters to save us from the weather? Why is nobody planning how we'll grow crops and livestock when it gets too hot for the species we have?
Why in the world are we not getting off our asses and resolving to try, try again at that old Biosphere 2 project-- not for living in space, this time, but for living on our own planet?
Are we just accepting that global warming is going to kill us if we can't stop it? Are we betting our lives on the tiny, tiny chance that we can get through mountains of government bureaucracy and human stubbornness in time to turn it around? WHERE IS OUR PLAN B?
Okay, you can all go back to arguing now. I've said my piece.
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