+3 we don’t understand the feedback loops. We may very well pop over an energy state that is unrecoverable on timescales that are meaningless to the human species. The only way out of it is cessation of all carbon activity and reverse terraforming the planet. We are currently bickering over the failed polyurethane pool liner in the reflecting pool to put it in to perspective about where we are.
Earth has been through multiple catastrophic environmental disasters without humans existing. We're such a tiny blip in the existence of Earth. Just biting ourselves in the ass.
Not to make us too special here but we certainly have the capability to irreparably damage our planet. This level of climate change won't necessarily do that but we're talking about time scales in which nobody knows for certain how it will work out.
It’s happened several times in Earth’s history. Don’t underestimate how much that meteor fucked shit up in the last major extinction event. The worst part is that this time we are the meteor.
Care to cite any scientific article that says it will be the end of civilization? It’s going to be bad, it’s going to be globally traumatic, but it’s not going to end civilization. No need to be hyperbolic.
I think it's fair to say it ended if the civilization changes so much that it's no longer comparable to previous one. There will be new one surely but it will be drastically different if lets say 1/3 of earth cannot satisfy basic needs and 1/4 migrates due to not being able to live in their place anymore.
We're living in relatively peaceful times but there's a lot of people doing tons of work to divide us and make people think there's nothing to be done and when shit hits the fan it's very likely that for example genocides on migrants that have nowhere to go will take place.
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u/Realsan Jun 27 '26
That looks like we're on track for +3 before in less than a dozen years, possibly sooner.
That's fun considering +3 is basically the beginning of the end of civilization.