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The difference to climate change is that the earth never experienced such a rapid change in climate short of cataclysmic events in the time periods we can indir
by chmod775 6y ago
The difference to climate change is that the earth never experienced such a rapid change in climate short of cataclysmic events in the time periods we can indirectly observe, whereas the earth's magnetic field changing happened quite often and quite suddenly even before humans came around.
- freeflight 6y agoAnd the similarity is how for literally decades that possibility was either belittled or quite bluntly suppressed when the changes couldn't be as directly observed and didn't as directly impact us, as they are doing by now. That's what I take issue with, I'm not arguing that changes to the magnetic field are without a doubt the result of human activity, I'm merely taking issue with how quickly and nonchalantly such possibilities are hand-waved away with "human activity is just too insignificant". When by now it turns out human activity has been significant enough to kick-off a process that can be very much described as "terraforming", or rather "venusforming" terra.