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The current thought patterns that seem to be the dominant ones for the majority of ordinary people seem to assume that there are no feedback loops or tipping po
by 127 6y ago
The current thought patterns that seem to be the dominant ones for the majority of ordinary people seem to assume that there are no feedback loops or tipping points. While the evidence from other planets directly contradicts this.
Also with end of history, I didn't mean the end of the human race. Just the end of the current civilization and possibly written history. Another dark age, so to speak.
- I-M-S 6y agoIs it scientifically possible that present conditions on Venus were caused by a civilization that triggered a runaway greenhouse effect artificially?
- Ekaros 6y agoI wonder about this. As carbon we are now emitting must have been at one point in atmosphere? And at that point there was some sort of equilibrium. So could we really push it all to atmosphere again? And would that really lead to loop-back?
- hn_throwaway_99 6y ago> While the evidence from other planets directly contradicts this. To echo what another reply said, our own planet contradicts the idea that we would turn into a Venus for some reason. In that all the carbon we're putting back into the atmosphere is from organic processes that took it out of the atmosphere eons ago. So, again, yes, the change will be enormously traumatic for humanity, but I don't see any evidence that written history will somehow disappear, for example.