Ok that's cool, but scientists are pretty much universally on one side of this issue, like 99 percent plus. The division and rhetoric is coming from the other side of this issue, and honestly that's really what that side is all about on any other issue as well. It's not a new issue, they've known about this since the 50s, totally confirmed in the 90s, and we're debating it like this is something worth debating as if it will change the facts 30 years later. The only errors of the scientists thus far is that they've been too conservative with their estimates and keep underestimating how bad things really are and how quick it's gonna happen, and so everytime they update their predictions they become more and more apocalyptic. I understand that this is disturbing news, and accepting it challenges some people's view of the world, so cognitive dissonance has to be overcome to accept it, but at some point the rest of the world moves on and starts trying to solve the problem without them. How many more decades will conservatives need to accept scientific findings that make them uncomfortable?
Yes i understand that volcanic activity can do the same thing, which is exactly why Venus is a hellscape. Yes i understand that we can't control volcanos, if we have a few big ones life on earth as we know it will end, and as little mammals that have overrun this planet that means a ton of us will die. But that doesn't mean we can ignore our own influences to the system and just keep living like we have been, it's simply not sustainable. The planet doesn't care either way, 99 percent of the lifeforms it has seen over the years are extinct. But as "intelligent life" we should be smart enough to limit our destruction of our home enough to keep it from destroying us. Many organisms over the years have gone extinct by habitat loss caused by themselves, we're poised to be the most destructive ones since the great oxidation event. I fully expect humans to fail at solving this problem, because honestly we act more like apes than men when asked to help each other solve a seemingly impossible task that isn't an immediate short term threat but rather a slow cooking of the frog type problem. Hell this debate has been going on for pretty much my entire life, and we're exactly where we were when we started.
