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The problem of seeing this as a cost-benefit equation is when you may risk facing infinite cost. Climate change, as a single, isolated factor, won't cause by i
by gmuslera 7y ago
The problem of seeing this as a cost-benefit equation is when you may risk facing infinite cost.
Climate change, as a single, isolated factor, won't cause by itself human extinction or at least the end of the human civilization in a foreseeable future, but reality is complex, current civilization and most of mankind depends on a lot of connected systems. Positive feedback loops happen, in climate, economics and in cultures, and from time to time the effects catch by surprise experts. We might be betting it all, and losing the bet, forever.
- amanaplanacanal 7y agoYou might be right, but you can make that same argument about any change in any complex system.
- gmuslera 7y agoIn this case, it is the complex system at which we all live in. And we are not talking about the fly of a butterfly, the climate system is gaining an atomic bomb worth of energy each second https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/07/global-warming-of-oceans-equivalent-to-an-atomic-bomb-per-second https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/07/global-w...