Originally posted by robomagon:

Originally posted by rojimboo:

Deport them back to a war zone, if you haven't learned a language in a year?

Out of curiousity, how many languages do you speak and how long did it take you to learn them?

Yes.

One. If I ever move to a new country and I can't learn basic language skills in a year, then I don't belong there.

Sorry to break it to you, but unless you are quite talented in linguistics, it will usually take a bit longer than that.

Never mind the ethical problems.

Originally posted by robomagon:

Give them a year to learn. If they haven't made decent progress, then deport.

Deport them back to a war zone, if you haven't learned a language in a year?

Out of curiousity, how many languages do you speak and how long did it take you to learn them?

Originally posted by Hamm fam:

Originally posted by Littlefoot:

Em... how easy do you think learning a new language is for people who have spent most of their time fleeing?

how's about they stop fleeing, learn how to fight and fix their fucking country

Well, it did take the combined resources of the richest countries in the world to fuck up their country.

They would need something similar to unfuck it.

Originally posted by Lewious-Tan:

Simple solutions to complex problems are not solutions

Well, true in most cases, but to simplify things integration and/or assimilation is the solution immigrant problems.

Considering immigrants are at least bi-lingual and thus usually more talented in languages, I really don't see this as an issue.

Originally posted by Littlefoot:

How can i convince people to reduce their effect on the enviroment?

Their carbon footprint?

There's only so much individuals can do, as most of the emissions come from the energy sector and industry.

Households, though not insignificant, usually operate on what is the most affordable.

And for this we need government.

Elect officials that support renewables, reducing carbon footprint everywhere etc.

Sure you could go vegan, and that would help a bit (methane from cow farts and inefficient use of resources) but it would only make a tiny dent.

Same for recycling - in some cases more energy is needed to recycle (this does not hold true for things like aluminium which is the easiest to recycle).

Really we need the right politicians in the right places to put a tax on carbon emissions or increase the tax if already in place, take part in emissions trading schemes if not already and so on.

It is frustrating this issue is kinda out of the hands of the individual.

But how to convince others of the impacts of climate change? Well first you need to convince them that man made climate is occurring. Through science. If you ask more specifically how to convince skeptics or stump them, I can help with that.

Then we need to convince of the impact of climate change. Again through science.

Originally posted by Anatolia:

If I may ask, what are your thoughts concerning the subject? Regarding the climate & such, actually.

This is quite a broad question too, but sure, you should probably know where I am coming from personally.

I believe it is the single greatest threat to mankind (and the planet), and the single biggest problem to solve because it is a global issue.

It is infuriating that the science has been settled for over a decade, yet there are still seemingly intelligent people questioning whether it is even happening at all.

But that's what it has become now - it is less to do with science and more to do with politics unfortunately.

On the one side, you have the rich countries that are responsible for most of the warming historically, and on the other the developing countries (though it's hard to call China that anymore these days) who are becoming the biggest polluters.

But how do you tell a bunch of poorer countries it's their duty to implement expensive emission cuts when the western world doesn't like to do it, and certainly hasn't done it for over a century? What gives us the right to tell these up and coming countries that they can't advance and build cheap coal power plants?

That I mainly leave to the politicians, but without acting ourselves, we don't have a leg to stand on.

Originally posted by Sir Illic:

Is it real? I'm honestly stumped on that one part, a yes or no answer will suffice.

There is overwhelming cumulative evidence it is man made and happening at a frightening rate.

This evidence is not only theoretical, empirical but also corrobarative, meaning completely different sources of data and methods giving the same answer.

This could have been a very very long answer, but for now, let's leave it at that.

Ask me anything related to climate change.

I should know somewhat how to answer as it's my field. The scientific part that is, not so much the fucking politics.

Example questions could be anything really,

- How do we know climate change is happening and is man-made?
- How to convince skeptics?
- How to stump skeptics?

etc.

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