What I don't understand with the "it's natural" folks - aside from ignoring the evidence and rapid acceleration (in the opposite of the expected direction) of climate change post-industrialization - is the fact that if it's all so natural...that doesn't mean it isn't going to fuck us over. If it's natural that the climate isn't going to just magically stay in the habitable-to-humans zone, that should be even MORE incentive to figure out how to affect our climate (on the assumption that we don't already know enough to reverse the current trend) in order to make sure we survive.
The position expressed by the "it's natural" folks is either 'fuck all future generations, I got mine, and that's all I care about', or 'I willingly subject humanity for now and forever to the whims of random environmental changes because it's "natural"' - the former being more likely, the latter being really paradoxical if one considers the natural inclination of all things to survive and strengthen their species. It's one of those really weird cases of assuming that human beings are not part of nature (and if we are, then anything we do to try and survive is technically 'natural' as well), but at the same time trying to say we should just ignore our supposed special status and refuse to deal with it? (Which ultimately makes the 'fuck everyone else' response the actual response of most of these people, the other one is just obfuscation/an attempt at justification to oneself.)
I, for one, was always partial to this picture in response to the claims that anthropogenic climate change is all a hoax:
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So simple. (Usually followed by cries of "it's all a scam to make the Green Energy people lots of money!" - to which my response is..."the green energy people who didn't have any money or even really exist prior to the discovery of man-made climate change somehow paid off literally all the scientists with the money they didn't have to make this a thing, on the off chance everyone would fall for it and make them rich, despite the attempts by the oil and motor industry to stop it being a thing, when said industries had literally ALL THE MONEY? Yeah, tell me again how that makes sense.")
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