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Why copyright if climate change is so serious?

I don't have a formal article to post, but I have some ideas I want to get out there to be discussed. Please respond to this post as my hope is to get a thread going, and to see what other people think. I was at the OpenConcept 10'th anniversary on Friday, and one of the people I bumped into is Mike Kaulbars . He was Rina's TA back at Carleton, and I know him from PERC . He is someone who is now dedicating much of his time to climate change, and if you read or listen to him he is not optimistic. While there are some who disagree with the scientists, I'm not one of them. I believe we are in a global experiment that we can't predict, and that will have dire consequences for our species. I don't personally think we are talking about extinction level event, but given how fragile our societies and economies are I expect disruptions far greater than anything we have ever seen in our past. It would be understating the issue to compare it to a world war as I beli