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Netflix has a pretty cool series called "One Strange Rock". You should watch it, they explain the Amazon's role well in one episode. First of all oxygen is con
by bad_user 7y ago
Netflix has a pretty cool series called "One Strange Rock". You should watch it, they explain the Amazon's role well in one episode.
First of all oxygen is constant. Oxygen is currently not the problem. And it's a good thing that it's constant because we don't want more of it either.
The problem with Amazon is that on Earth it's all interconnected and while there's plenty of room for failure, there is a tipping point, scientists have only disagreed on where that tipping point is. Once we are there however we will no longer be able to stop the chain reaction.
- Retric 7y agoThere is no single tipping point. There are a vast number of different tipping points with different outcomes.
- zaroth 7y agoWhich is to say, there is no tipping point?
- Retric 7y agoMore that many systems are involved, and they are not all binary choices. So, local flooding for example does not operate on the same scale as ocean acidification.
- BurningFrog 7y agoThere is this idea that the ecological balance is very fragile and easily destroyed. This is true, in a way, but it doesn't mean nature will dies. It almost always just means that nature will find a new ecological balance.
- bad_user 7y agoIf nature finds a new ecological balance that's incompatible with human life, does it matter?
- BurningFrog 7y agoThis is more a Hollywood movie plot than something that really happens.
- dmix 7y agoSo you see it being like the singularity that people predicted in tech/AI but for natural disasters?