Nonsense. We didn't make that decision as a species. A vanishingly small percentage of our species, comprising a combination of billionaires and of CEOs in control of the fossil fuel industries, are the ones making that decision.

The vast majority of those of us who are well-informed about the issue are desperately trying to prevent, or at least mitigate, the damage, but fighting efforts backed by such obscene accumulations of wealth is proving to be a sisyphean task.

At my Toastmasters club, one of our long-time members used ChatGPT to produce a speech about ChatGPT, and when I got home from the meeting, I played around with it for an hour or so. Results were fairly impressive, but to actually use the results, they would still needed heavy editing to strengthen the speech.

I'd consider using it to generate a first draft, but then I'd want to enhance and personalize the results before actually presenting it at a meeting.

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Cheap solar power to separate the C from the O2, then put the C back in the ground.

Install the bioreactor at the site where you'll be stashing the C, and you don't have transportation costs.

Power the burial equipment with solar.

We can react to problems by giving up and declaring it impossible, or we can react by working to solve them. Giving up in despair is not a viable solution.

Euthanizing them is a lazy approach. I'd rather subject them to a far more heinous punishment: take away their political power by severely reducing their wealth and thereby turning them into mere millionaires.

Pathological billionaires would prefer death, rather than suffering the indignity of becoming millionaires.

A wealth tax on accumulations larger than $X million may do the trick, for some negotiable value of X.

Because responsible parents would protect their children by allowing death squads in their home country to murder them? /snark

If they're pronouncing it in the field, and pronouncing th letters, then it should have been pronounced

"Let's warp to planet Victor India India and moon India India India"

Kids should have the right to sue their parents for endangering their lives by denying them vaccines.

2) All human form and function, including consciousness, is a product of evolution. ie. naturally occurring, essentially random.

The notion that evolution is essentially about "Random Selection" is perhaps the most common misconception that the fundies use to make evolution sound implausible.

Natural Selection is a theory about evolution, whereas evolution is an observed fact. And the theory is called "Natural Selection", not "Random Selection". It's actually random genetic variation followed by competitive selection of individuals.

Can you give an example? We don't let the KKK spout their hate so freely any more, and it has worked wonders in diminishing their presence. It sure as hell hasn't made them look like the good guys.

That's not really true. We don't let the KKK murder people or trespass on private property in order to burn crosses, but they're free to hold marches and to spout their hate in the same manner as others spout political speech. It could be argued that allowing them to do this freely is what's responsible for diminishing their presence.