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Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points
(www.economist.com)
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I really wish we would cut it out with the hopium already.
There’s no approaching, the critical tipping points are well and truly behind us. The next step is nature showing her creative ways to get rid of the pest that we are.
I don't think we're past all the climate tipping points; that'd start to cause runaway changes. Swift action right now would still provide a chance to lessen the impact.
The worst case scenarios would be truly disastrous though, and would cause secondary human conflicts due to unavailability of basic resources.
I think you should sell the earmuffs and heavily tinted sunglasses you’re wearing.
It’s not front and centre, but The Congo and Sudan be are already there. So is the war in Syria and Yemen. And thats just the start of the drought and famine wars. It’ll get a lot worse fairly quickly.
Four times you wrote “would” in those 2 paragraphs. I wish I could share your optimism.