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No, but we are fucked from climate change.
by ClassyJacket 3y ago
No, but we are fucked from climate change.
- lovecg 3y agoNah, people will just buy more A/Cs. But the ecosystem collapse will do us in.
- brutusborn 3y agoAgain I disagree. The worst predictions for climate change are not based on very solid models. There are lots of clever people who are skeptical of the doomerism. As an example, the claim that more people will die from heat waves is correct, but when you compare it to the people who won’t die from cold weather then climate change is a net benefit! And in terms of environmental collapses, things like the health of ocean ecosystems is more dependent on human activities like overfishing. Focusing on climate change to fix these problems is nonsensical.
- yreg 3y agoWhat about ocean acidification? That is connected to CO2 in the atmosphere and had a good chance of leading to collapse of marine ecosystems, no?
- brutusborn 3y agoThat is definitely my biggest worry ocean-wise. I haven’t read many acidification papers but the impression I get is that ocean absorption of CO2 is relatively slow so we will only start to see noticeable changes on the order of centuries. If these problems occur faster than we can decarbonise then we will need to geoengineer ocean chemistry. Although this is a plan B, we will be able to implement it before there are significant enough changes to cause a collapse.