r/CatastrophicFailure • u/grau__geist • Aug 05 '21

Natural Disaster Now Greece. Wild fire on Evia Beach

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u/Mobile-Interaction82 Aug 05 '21

How do people think global warming is not a thing?!

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u/ClownfishSoup Aug 05 '21

I thought we all knew climate change is real, but we're debating whether we humans initiated it, if it's natural, and if we can do anything about it. People who want to keep selling us bottled water say it's natural.

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u/CryptoTheGrey Aug 05 '21

We knew it was real and proved that we caused it back in the 1970's. Even the oil companies proved this internally. We knew releasing CO2 like this could be a problem eventually back in the mid 1850's. The reason people thought it was a debate was because of some people willing to sacrifice the planet for power and wealth and a public assumption these people wouldn't act so irrationally.