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simianwords 5 hours ago

> They are talking about civilisation changes, which we are already seeing.

What changes? How has civilisation meaningfully changed in a way and scale it didn't before? Can you come up with examples of those changes that don't have an equivalent in form and scale 200 years back?

Symbiote 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Air conditioning is increasingly necessary in Europe.

Muromec 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Western Europe mostly, for 6 days a year and that's the part of the world that most certainly has the means to install it whenever it decides so.

It's hardly an existential threat to civilization or locally to societies it affects. It's a symptom of things going sough, sure.