Warmer is not pollution. Let’s consider disease. Since disease is always bad, let’s give everyone antibiotics every day, preemptively remove everyone’s appendix, and start everyone on chemotherapy right now—oh, wait, there are side effects? Who knew? Similarly the “cure” for global warming could be worse than the disease since the correlation between standard of living and energy use is almost 1 and since those better off can withstand climate extremes better. I don’t suffer much when it is subzero temperature because my house is insulated and I can afford heat.
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