I've come to realize that focusing on CO2 is quite myopic in many ways, there are so many other accelerating effects of modernity https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/202

I've come to realize that focusing on CO2 is quite myopic in many ways, there are so many other accelerating effects of modernity https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/09/death-by-hockey-sticks/ https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/09/death-by-hockey-sticks/ that all spell trouble for us. But even worse in my opinion, our focus on replacing CO2 production lives firmly in the mindset of not changing our ways of live. We'd rather replace coal with solar -- or more realistically expand coal with solar -- than change the way we live. > Energy transition aspirations are similar. The goal is powering modernity, not addressing the sixth mass extinction. Sure, it could mitigate the CO2 threat (to modernity), but why does the fox care when its decline ultimately traces primarily to things like deforestation, habitat fragmentation, agricultural runoff, pollution, pesticides, mining, manufacturing, or in short: modernity. Pursuit of a giant energy infrastructure replacement requires tremendous material extraction—directly driving many of these ills—only to then provide the energetic means to keep doing all these same things that abundant evidence warns is a prescription for termination of the community of life.