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> The trouble with the article is that it abides by what I call the "Fragile Earth Theory", which posits that any aberrant act by humanity could send the entire
by fransje26 3y ago
> The trouble with the article is that it abides by what I call the "Fragile Earth Theory", which posits that any aberrant act by humanity could send the entire planet into a downward spiral that renders us all extinct. There's enough scientific evidence to disprove that idea, but it's not politically fashionable to argue it and not the hill I want to die on.
Interesting take, living in a country that has created the Dust Bowl. If the "scientific evidence" conveniently forgets history in its back yard to prove whatever nonsensical point it is trying to make, maybe is is time to look elsewhere for meaningful insights.
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- passwordoops 3y agoThere's a big difference between ruining a region and rendering everything on the planet extinct. Human activity depleting and permanently altering a local climate is well documented and known throughout history, but people move and survive. Nature is especially resilient and maybe with the exception of several thousand Megaton bombs glassing the planet (even then, plenty of microbes reside deep underground and might be radiation-resistant enough to handle it) life will find a way until Earth exits the habitable zone Even in the current changes we're seeing, many regions will become uninhabitable (I'm thinking India, for example) but currently Northern cold-climates are expected to become not only habitable but support agriculture (1). So yeah, we can destroy regions, but the planet lives on (1) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2021.663448/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2021.6634...
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- bluGill 3y agoThe dust bowl was 90 years ago. Since then we have had worse droughts, but not repeat dust bowls. We have learned.