Yes! I love my work, even though most people hate retail. I’m in a grocery store deli, and getting people food they like and them coming back saying I offered good recommendations just makes my day!

I’m the manager, and even I still struggle a bit with money at times, all the while trying to save for a house. Not easy out here, but certainly wouldn’t want to stop working.

Ah, so even the “landed gentry” made the migration… /s

That anxiety bit is too true, it has me fairly despondent when I think about it too long. It’s fair assertion you make, for sure.

Nah, existential is spot on

Relating to existence

Seems all too apropos in this context.

Thanks for the solid source! I do understand the need for keeping the discussion real, but the article clearly states,

…concluded that to avert catastrophic health impacts and prevent millions of climate change-related deaths…

Sounds pretty existential to me, at a scale we have never experienced.

While your numbers, if factual (no source posted), are statistically correct (in that it won’t make our species go extinct), you have to remember a simple fact: those numbers represent individual human lives. Family, friends, neighbors, your pizza guy, etc. Pretty brutal to be so flippant about.

Also, this doesn’t take into account the potential for cascading environmental system failures that could be caused by such warming. These unknowns could greatly change the equation.

I realize you are mainly arguing the point in response to “existential threats” being bandied about, but it’s a weird stance to take here.