This thread isn't about climate change. It's about pollution particulates that have already been shown to have a direct, devastating effect on our public's health. They increase the rate of pulmonary diseases, and exacerbate those that already exist. They result in early deaths. They cause damage to cars and structures. The result is billions of dollars in damages on both a human and material scale.
The rivers being flooded with oil aren't some future, abstract threat. These are problems we've already encountered in our history. They kill fish. The damage boats. The result in fires which shuts downs ports. Again, this isn't imaginary. These were pitfalls of the industrial revolution our parents and grandparents already encountered. They took measures to curb them. What's your excuse for arguing we shouldn't?
Per climate change, Jakarta is being drowned. They're not the first. It's already happened, and continues to happen to numerous islands that are home to mostly indigent, primitive populations in the Indian ocean. They're just the first urban center getting hit where rich people will start to care. Torrential flash flooding, the kind that puts cities under several feet of water, in coastal cities in certain regions, like South Carolina, have increased from one every several years to ~11 a year. By the time you die that's going to be anywhere from 50-110 a year. Trust me, once Washington D.C.'s summers balloon a half dozen degrees on upswing years, these useless politicians will start to care.
I can't stand the ignorance required to forward a statement like this. Go outside. Read a book.
