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>"don't worry, the earth knows how to regulate itself, it will figure itself out Yep that part is true >we'll be fine That part is not
by simplemath 10y ago
>"don't worry, the earth knows how to regulate itself, it will figure itself out
Yep that part is true
>we'll be fine
That part is not
- nerfhammer 10y agoFirst part isn't true, either. There's no reason why the Earth couldn't end up like Venus or Mars, and it could well do so in a few hundred million years. Habitability is a confluence of luck, there's no constraint that it has to last. It's just unlikely that we could cause harm on that scale, yet. Climate change won't wipe out humanity either, it will just inflict a tremendous amount of pain.
- SAI_Peregrinus 10y agoEarth is a massive (a bit under 6x10^24 kg) ball of iron and some other elements in comparatively minute quantities. The thin layer of the "biosphere" is utterly insignificant to Earth. It's massively significant to humans.
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- yawz 10y agoExactly! I'm afraid that whatever equilibrium (or quasi-equilibrium) or death spiral that nature comes up with, humanity won't be part of it.
- markbnine 10y agoobligatory George Carlin bit. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4
- _ph_ 10y agoI think this is the best short summary of the situation. Short of a nuclear war we won't kill all life on earth. But what we do next will determine how difficult the next decades will get. Cutting back on CO2 emissions is not about saving "the planet" it is about saving our immediate future.