In short, we aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions.

He makes it clear too that this doesn’t mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We’re going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren’t insurmountable and extinction level.

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    1 year ago

    Literally “This is fine.”

    Ignore the triple digit temps in the ocean, that’s not apocalyptic! Relax!

    So what if a few people died of heat exhaustion just by… Walking outside for a few minutes. Normal. Not apocalyptic.

    So what if regular rains are delivering hurricane levels of flooding. That’s just nature doing it’s thing, dude. Quit overreacting.

    Malaria is in NJ, but like, mosquitos fly so that was probably bound to happen.

    And really, like, 110 isnt that hot, especially if it’s not humid.

    Relax.