Are the global climate changes cause for alarm?

I have been reading Climate Courage by Andreas Karelas upon finding it at a bargain store. This matter of global warming I had come to believe was something which has been blown out of proportion by the media. Could it be a collective hallucination that human industry is causing all these environmental changes? I have a feeling many want to deny the harmful effect humans have on the environment as it's too much of an inconvenience for them to think otherwise. On the other hand, I have been persuaded that some environmentalists are fabricating information to create a sense of alarm. Carbon dioxide has been this great obsession when it's not truly a toxin and I have yet to see any clear evidence that it's worthy of all the media attention and alarmist propaganda about how it's harming the global environment.

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BlueGreenGrey ·

No one will ever convince a climate denier, not even in the final week of the human species

I mean even people dying of Covid in hospitals were denying they had Covid right up until the moment they died

It's the same, irrational mindset, these people who won't accept reality, it could be the environment, it could be public health, it could be literally any subject, this demographic is going to conjure a way to deny the reality of that subject (and most hilariously, keep falling back on blaming that old chestnut. "The Media", unless it's right wing media of course) ... which would be fine, if it only resulted in their own demise, but unfortunately idiots affect everyone and should be dealt with accordingly

Trying to characterize CO2 as a toxin or not a toxin shows you don't even grasp the basic fundamentals of a "greenhouse effect" but also just for sh*ts and giggles try breathing in a sealed room with nothing but CO2 and see how long you live.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@BlueGreenGrey The "deniers" of this that or other all have their own reasons, but I do wonder if some are driven by fear of what they try to deny and deride.