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Originally Posted by Libertine
Since we're talking about something that would be pretty damn big if true, we'd need to have a pretty broad consensus leaning the other way not to take action.
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You have it exactly backward. The consequences of taking drastic action will be so economically crippling (and will cause untold amounts of human suffering in the third world) that to take such drastic and economically suicidal measures we would have to be absolutely certain that we had no other choice.