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Texas is one of the most vulnerable places on Earth to global warming, already hot and humid and battered by big hurricanes. 🥵

In Texas last year…

Climate killed 306 people

Cancer killed 46,300 people

How would you allocate spending across these two problems? 🤔

Now, should we compare actual climate change budgets with oncology research budgets? 😖

Today 1 in 6 people die early because of cancer.

How much propaganda do you have to absorb to be more passionate about fighting CO2 than fighting cancer? I am curious.

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pipe 2y ago

It's because they think Earth will burst into flames. Not exaggerating. They think it's just going to get hotter and hotter forever.

Linear temperature rise.

⚡️🌱🌙 2y ago

They will all be dead of cancer long before then.

John Dee 2y ago

Why not fight both at the same time? Building up living soil will sequester huge amounts of carbon and grow more nutritious food leading to better health.

⚡️🌱🌙 2y ago

Honestly I could get really interested in soil.

So complex, so important to Earth.

History, future, science, nanotechnology, geo-engineering, soil could do lots of things. Central to terraforming and extension of DNA timeline beyond the death of Sol.

Super soil could be the self replicating self correcting, durable system that stabilises life on Earth. It can also store massive amounts of information in DNA.

Self governing systems are always interesting to me.

Séimí Mac Síomón 2y ago

What's the autopsy to check for climate-death involve?

nobody 2y ago

Its 95F with 34% humidity in one of spots in TX. Meanwhile Miami is 89F with 70% humidity tho.

Well one good thing is southern States will meet Vitamid D needs via exposure as compared to northern counterparts where vitamin d defficiency is more common (or so I thought). Interesting nonetheless gotta figure it all out sometime 😅

Eluc 2y ago

I won't argue that we should not invest in curing cancer but with money at stake in big pharma the incentive are already high and investement is probably higher than climate change already but I didn't search a source to confirm that.

The truth is that curing cancer might save some more humans but what about all animals and plants we will let die if we continue to destroy our environnement like we do today. Earth will not burn into flame but living comfort will degrade for future generations of humans staying alive and all other living species that share our planet with us.

⚡️🌱🌙 2y ago

I’m not sure what you mean there?

Sounds like political dogma.

As atmospheric CO2 increases so does the biomass of the Earth. Thanks to anthropogenic CO2 the biomass of Earth has been steadily increasing since reaching a nadir in the 1960’s.

A higher atmospheric CO2 concentration means more efficient photosynthesis and improved plant growth. The planet doesn’t degrade, life on Earth has witnessed 1/3rd of the history of the universe. It’s survived many more challenging cosmological events than any threat humans pose.

Isn’t the main challenge due to climate change wandering ecosystems running up against geographical limits, as thinks adapt by drifting latitude?

The Carpenter Ant 2y ago

Well said. I'll have to remember this one.