Originally Posted by
alan s
So if you knew in a million years an asteroid would hit the earth and destroy all human life, would you advocate spending huge amounts of money to address the problem now, or make note of it, study the problem, and kick the can down the road for future generations to solve? I'd vote for kicking the can.
Same goes for fixing or controlling the climate. Except that we don't actually know what, if anything, is happening to the climate, what the cause is, and what, if anything, can be done about it. It takes a long time to determine what is happening and for any problem to manifest itself. Go ahead and study it, debate it and think up plans to address it, but don't waste money going overboard, and don't chastise others for questioning the alleged science behind the outlandish claims of devastation. We all know it's a ploy for more government funding.
A million years? Sure, wait for tech to catch up.
Climate change is happening now, however. It is not a "ploy for more government funding." The science is real and not "alleged." If you are worried about government waste, there are many, many more expensive programs that you could look into--but most people who deny climate change are not interested in, say, cutting the military. They reject climate change because the propaganda tells them to, not because they are scientifically literate enough to understand anything about it.