The way I prefer to see it is whether we want to maintain the current “lifestyle” status quo. In the grand scheme of things we might look forward to the future we want for our grandchildren, but for the most part most people are more worried about taking care of what is good in society that we want to keep around.
As last resort we can always trigger a nuclear winter. /s
And there is no worry that it will destroy the planet either. Earth has already weathered hundreds of terrible catastrophic global level events in the past and has survived.
There is no real danger to the planet. This has all happened before.
Sure, life that can adapt will. But that’s not the main concern. It’s the immeasurable and enormous potential loss of human life and every other innocent creature that people are morally concerned about.
That’s the point I was trying to imply with my sarcastic first comment.
Climate change deniers always like to point out ancient prehistoric changes that occurred on earth thousands or even millions of years ago … and they are right.
What they seldom understand is that the earth can weather these unbelievable changes but life, especially human life can not.
I never worry about the planet. It will be around for about another billion years in one form or another. It’s always a question of whether or not any living thing will survive on it’s surface.
I was being stupid with my first comment and I don’t mind being stoned for it … I just wanted to point out that climate change is not a problem for the planet … it’s a problem for the survival of all human life.
That’s rather a red herring: the risk is to our ability to support nearly so many people as we have, rather than that we’ll shatter the Earth into tiny fragments like the Death Star attacking Alderaan
CO2 levels never were like that since humans existed. We don’t know how suitable a planet transformed this way is for human life.
There is exactly one planet in the known universe which can host humans, and we might be in the process of changing that. An experiment without backup.
For anybody who hasn’t seen the graph of CO2 concentrations:
Zack Labe has some great visuals: https://zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/