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Thanks for showing me about tipping points. Tipping points exist at every level, you could have shown this mechanism in 1800's and asked people to stop/slow dev
by simianwords 3mo ago
Thanks for showing me about tipping points. Tipping points exist at every level, you could have shown this mechanism in 1800's and asked people to stop/slow development.
In fact I can justify not just net zero, but net negative emissions and stalling of all progress of humanity itself by using your article.
It would have been another story if there were some graph between emissions vs probability of hitting an irreversible tipping point. At least this gives us a prescriptive analysis on how to deal with the tradeoffs.
Your article contains NONE of that. And I posit that it doesn't contain it because the real probabilities are much lower.
You can't make serious policies by handwaving tipping points. No country should immediately go net zero because of your article or even the studies your article cites.
I get that it feels good to be in a position to scold people into stopping progress. I'm willing to learn new perspectives - at least come up with a emissions vs probability quantified. Till then its just scolding and handwaving.