“It is unlikely that all-out nuclear war in our day would destroy the earth. For sure, it wouldn’t be a picnic for maybe 20 years afterward, but total annihilation of humanity? Unlikely.”
That’s partly true, except that it would be more like 300 years, and there’d maybe be a few million humans living in Third World conditions after that.
I don’t get how these people think ‘elitists’ support the environmental movement. Most of them don’t and that’s where the problem lies. And, as the people running the world, they need to support it.
As for ‘factual arguments’ and ‘black and white facts’ and ‘bankrupt reasoning’, that’s a total inversion of the truth. I’ve said it before: anyone who denies global climate change needs a physical slap in the face.