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people who complain about the climate while driving to starbucks to get coffee.
I call it hand-wringing when you have a bunch of concern by too few people to do anything, most of whom are too busy keeping the status-quo burning to actually do anything about the problem.
"we can't get out of it just by not using them any more, " < That is the only way we are going to get out of it. But what people want is to have it fixed without inconveniencing them at all. They want to sit on their asses and watch cable while everyone else pays the price. I think people are going to get precisely what they have engineered.
Fact is, we may have already birthed more people than the planet can handle, and since we are too weak to fix the problem, the earth may just fix it for us. 
compared to today, This would be a great day for them to begin to shut things down. MIght be hard, but not as hard as it will be when there is less land and food. 
Besides, every day we wait is that much worse. If there are shortages in land or water, they may wish they had fixed it by then, if their kids have to make decisions.
Btw - this infers that the sceptics are older. That's the same mistake made when they started telling me the racists were these old farts, and they would be dying off.
I first heard that 50 years ago. I'm still hearing people try to convince themselves of that one, as if it were yesterday. They begin to sound like people waiting for the end of the world, coming Wednesday.
I see just as many young climate deniers as I do others, and more are being bred all the time. If we have to wait for them to be gone, we are all dead.
well, you know.
I wasn't arguing. Just making a point, take it or leave it. The effect they have is like mosquitoes and malaria.Sure the bugs have an effect, but we stood up and mitigated it. The people you mention affect some outcomes, limit our choices - but only because we let them, and everyone is pretty much comfortable with it. To do that we grind up a few million people every year. It used to just be the native folks, then black people, but these days it is taking more and more to keep the machine running. So now we have to find new dividing lines to convince ourselves that others are unworthy. It's not like it's some big goddamn secret.
Btw- In the past few years, our rates of Adult Onset Diabetes have doubled, nearing 1 in 10. They estimate another 10 mill or so un-diagnosed, so about a 20 million increase in new patients, with all the costs and loss that entails. In addition, in roughly another 20 years the Baby Boomers are going to have tens of millions of new Alzheimer's patients to care for, (and hundreds of billions of dollars in NEW costs for health care, btw). In addition to that, all of our unsuccessful warring and killing that we have engaged in over the years has created whole countries of enemies, for which we will surely pay as we go forward.
There are so many challenges ahead of global warming that we may not live long enough for it to kill us, which it has surely already started doing. But one can hope.
Anyway, all these things are not predetermined, not up to the 3 sisters and their cloth. It's up to us. I tire of listening to people make excuses for their inaction. Back in the olden days a guy named Carter suggested we turn down our thermostats and wear sweaters as we got our economy under control.
The country told him to fuck off and elected the actor guy with the monkey, and we began a downhill slide that we haven't stopped. That's when I started hearing these excuses for why it was always somebody else that kept people from doing the right thing. Since Carter for cryin' out loud. Phooey.
So, yeah, the rest of what you wrote is pretty much ok. Your clarity is fine.
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