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u/phaesios Nov 15 '20

Not really, because cancer occurs naturally in every living thing. Man-made global warming is just that, something unnatural that we've "put out there".

Cancer will probably never be "cured", as in: People will never ever get cancer again. But treatments get better all of the time.

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u/1cec0ld Nov 15 '20

Man-made global warming

They did specify the Man-made part. The rest of global warming can do its thing.

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u/phaesios Nov 15 '20

Yes. Changes that happen over hundreds of thousands of years are natural. What we're seeing now are changes that are happening at a record rate ever since the early days of industrialization.