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The climate system is fiendishly complex, so even with all the modern computation power we have to throw at it, I don't think the scientists have a great unders
by hotpotamus 3y ago
The climate system is fiendishly complex, so even with all the modern computation power we have to throw at it, I don't think the scientists have a great understanding of the future that we're careening into, but they sure don't seem all that happy about it, do they? At some point you start looking at the climate science and the economics (hard to call that a science, but I think you're correct that fossil fuels are so deeply embedded as to be intractable) and you start to see two giant opposing forces that human civilization is caught between that may be the end of it.
I also find it hard to believe that people can just go on living as normal and having children in the face of that, but I also wonder what happens as more and more people figure it out.