Neil deGrasse Tyson - The greatest threat of extinction

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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[airplaneman]

1. Isn't climate change the warning of scientists. n/t,

[SunSeeker]

2. No. Climate change is a fact. It is not a warning.

The reason it will kill us is we are not heading scientists' warning that this fact exists and that we must change our behavior to combat climate change.

[Moostache]

7. The behavior change alone train left a decade and a half ago...

People alive today are going to die because of climate change and not just a few...

Third world nations are going to be killed off in an undeclared genocide that is already underway with the migrant crises in Europe and the USA and the normalization of utterly abhorrent behavior.

WE ARE CAGING CHILDREN....STILL!!!!

Just because everyone stopped looking, the problem did not get solved. When climate change contributes to crop failures and famines, THEN you will see people gunned down at the borders by the 1000s at a time...but by then, the worst effects will be literally baked in for the rest of civilization too.

We are literally fiddling while Rome burns, and it is depressing but it is the end of humanity when the seas level off dozens of meters above their current level and the arable land is reduced to a fraction of what exists now...the problem is WAY WORSE than anyone is letting on...way, way worse.

[SunSeeker]

3. K & R

[DesertRat]

4. Excellent k&r

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. So true.

The vast majority of people have almost no understanding of science. They think that "theory" means "wild-assed guess" which is how most of us use it in ordinary speech ("I have a theory about why the Cowboys lost the Superbowl.&quot . No, theory in science means an idea which has already been tested and has held up.

[lambchopp59]

6. Honestly I wish he'd been a bit more specific than "society".

Its the RWNJ's en masse falling for the long con, still driving their big pickemuptrucks to haul one or two fat asses to the all you can eat buffet, listening to Lush Rimbaugh on the radio while tailgaiting my compact car shouting antisocial epithets at the gay libtard equality sticker, then returning for their evening hate-fest with HANNITY while dropping FunYums crumbs and guzzling beer all over the couch their mangy little dog cleans up after they've fallen asleep just after discussing if they should buy a BIGGER pickemuptruck.
(lambchopp takes a moment to breathe and huff on albuterol inhaler)
Please, if this is our "society"... how soon can I expatriate?

[Permanut]

8. All triggered by overpopulation..

The carrying capacity of the Earth has been exceeded. Any ecosystem in that state is destined for drastic changes.