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Carl Sagan - 1985 testimony on climate change (US Senate) (www.youtube.com)
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"Witnesses testified on how the greenhouse effect will change the global climate system and possible solutions.”

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This is going to sound shitty, but I’m glad he didn’t live to see the now irrefutable evidence that we’re just burying our heads about this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I noticed in that video how Al Gore looked as he listened. Sagan died in 1996. Gore released his documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth', 18 years ago in 2006. I believe Sagan would not have been surprised at the film's reception, nor surprised by how little impact it has had on effective response to the threats it outlined. You can lead a horse to water....