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OT - new carbon tax 3-Mar-2011 At 12:06:09 PM Gavo

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On 3/03/2011 billk wrote:

>One side believes that nature is fragile and economies are resilient so
>its safer to mess around with the latter. The other side seems to believe
>the exact opposite. There must be a whole lot more to it as well but I
>think that's a good starting to point for understanding both the sincere
>climate change denialists and those who think climate change is happening
>but we can't risk economic disaster by doing anything about it.

The cold hard truth of it is this:

We have done irreversible damage to the planet. And its getting worse. If we slow down or stop our damage, the effects will be less than if we do not.

Abiding flawed arguments and allowing delays is exactly what the problem is. It perpetuates inaction which is what we cannot afford to do, and what a volume of actual evidence telling us NOT to do.

Many people dont seem to consider the gravity of the problem.