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Simply ... no. > Humanity is in overshoot — global heating, plunging biodiversity, soil/land degradation, tropical deforestation, ocean acidi-fication, fossil
by myshpa 3y ago
Simply ... no.
> Humanity is in overshoot — global heating, plunging biodiversity, soil/land degradation, tropical deforestation, ocean acidi-fication, fossil fuel and mineral depletion, the pollution of everything, etc., are indicative of the increasing disordering of the biosphere/ecosphere. We are at risk of a chaotic break-down of essential life-support functions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1vX03h7w9c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1vX03h7w9c
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- Bostonian 3y agoCommodity prices are at about their 25-year mean according to https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crb https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crb , which suggest we are not running out of things. The climate is warming, but it is a gradual process that humans will adapt to. In much of the world air pollution has been decreasing -- for U.S. data see https://gispub.epa.gov/air/trendsreport/2022/#introduction https://gispub.epa.gov/air/trendsreport/2022/#introduction.
- faeriechangling 3y agoThe word “adapt” is doing heavy lifting.
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- myshpa 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries#Nine_boundaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries#Nine_boun...
- toomuchtodo 3y agoThis puts into words a concept I have tried to explain to others sub-optimally. Thank you for sharing this link.