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Comment Re:I'm a climate sceptic, but not how you think... (Score 1) 822

You may not care about the forced migration of millions of people as their land becomes blighted by drought or submerged by rising seas. But 1/3 of the world population relies on glacial meltwater for fresh water in the dry season - when the glaciers are gone (most in much less than a century if current mass balance trends continue) we will need to either introduce desalination on a scale we are completely unprepared for, or accept the deaths of possibly billions of people.

Comment Re:This isn't going to help (Score 1) 200

You make several good points, but the idea that we humans have more leisure time now than we did in our 'natural' state is bunk. Food collection required significantly less time than your average 'civilized' citizen works today. For example, studies of the hunter-gathering !Kung tribe have shown that they have more leisure time than industrialized people. Of course with this extra work we buy a significantly improved quality of life...

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