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There was an HN comment a while back about how hard it is for most creatures to evaluate exponential growth. About how a petri dish colony took 2 weeks to get
by r00fus 7y ago
There was an HN comment a while back about how hard it is for most creatures to evaluate exponential growth. About how a petri dish colony took 2 weeks to get to 50% full but then they all died off in the next 2 hours because their growth was exponential and the environment static.
Once the climate starts worsening visibly, it will get much worse quicker.
The world is literally on fire now (california, australia, the arctic) - guess what's lined up for the next decade.
- jes5199 7y agoIt will get worse, but maybe not as worse as we’ve been thinking: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/climate-change-worst-case-scenario-now-looks-unrealistic.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/climate-change-worst...
- vixen99 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia is informative and provides perspective!