Bummer: If we don't change our ways, Earth to be uninhabitable sometime soon; no food, water or air will be available

Letter to a Climate Change Denier - Democratic Underground

The following is a response I sent to My Favorite Wingnut, who had just sent me some particularly outrageous denialist nonsense:

So let me get this straight. You see no problem with our continuing to do things that will render the Earth uninhabitable in the fairly near future--certainly within the lifetime of your grandchildren

Let us talk about the life you are wishing on your grandchildren. They will not have food because of widespread drought. They will not have water because we will have drained most of the aquifers with bad corporate agricultural practices, and poisoned the rest through gas fracking. There will be no air to breathe because the seas will have absorbed so much CO2 that they have become too acidic to support the plant life that produces oxygen, and the remaining forests will have died off due to the increasingly inhospitable conditions brought about by climate change.