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Moving to a high carbon atmosphere COULD be a good thing. You’re right! But in nature there is a concept of a “disturbance”. This is a hole that opens up in an
by erikpukinskis 7y ago
Moving to a high carbon atmosphere COULD be a good thing. You’re right!
But in nature there is a concept of a “disturbance”. This is a hole that opens up in an ecosystem, caused by fire, famine, violence, etc. These disturbances are a necessary part of the succession of species, which itself is an important part of ecosystem health.
HOWEVER, you can’t ignore the dimension of time. There is a FREQUENCY of disturbances which becomes destructive. Too many disturbances in too short a time results in the ecosystem being set back in time, hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years.
That’s the danger of climate change. Not that it happens, but that it happens too fast for ecologies to survive.