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Maybe a better analogy is a bus moving into a desert rather than out of it, while some people desperately try to tell the driver everyone's gonna die of thirst
by throwamon 4y ago
Maybe a better analogy is a bus moving into a desert rather than out of it, while some people desperately try to tell the driver everyone's gonna die of thirst while others insist there's an oasis nearby and others still believe they're heading towards a city. Some also know they're going into the desert but believe there's enough time to go back when they run out of water.
- ncmncm 4y agoThe cliff is not for Earth. Climate will change gradually, segueing smoothly. Mostly. Mass extinctions, sure, but those are normal. The cliff is civilizational collapse, which will happen very fast once a threshold is crossed. Which threshold it will be is uncertain. Ocean ecosystem collapse and mass starvation? Refugees from uninhabitable places exceed 200M, bringing fascists to power, hence war? Civilizational collapse has happened many, many times. Just not worldwide, before. We have seen how it goes: the rich try to cushion it for themselves, hastening the crash.