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Dealing with the symptoms without addressing the disease won’t work, specially when things will keep becoming worse, far worse, than what you imagine. Feedback
by gmuslera 3y ago
Dealing with the symptoms without addressing the disease won’t work, specially when things will keep becoming worse, far worse, than what you imagine.
Feedback loops and tipping points will make things to change far past what it did in the last 40 years.
The past emissions will remain in the atmosphere for at least another century (and will remain in the carbon cycle, so they will be a new stable), you will have more nature emissions (the permafrost thawing that you mentioned, more forest fires, more activity from microbes in wetlands and so on), and more things that will increase warming (like ice melting, and incoming blue ocean event, and more). And all of that, even if we stop all civilization emissions by tomorrow.
We may not survive with mild measures, you are ready to prioritize economy or even civilization over full extinction?