• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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    1 year ago

    It’s not about ‘fucked/not fucked’ but a matter of degree.

    We’re at the point where we go into what is essentially a minefield where we’ll see individual ecosystem components fail. We don’t know exactly when each of those will happen, but we do know that every 1/10 of a degree of warming we can avoid sharply lowers the risk from here on out.

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      1 year ago

      every 1/10 of a degree of warming we can avoid sharply lowers the risk from here on out.

      So… we’re extra, all-the-way, hopelessly fucked.

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        We’re at the point we’re pretty bad things happen, but not yet at the point where they’re bad enough to take down civilization. Acting quickly will keep it from getting that bad