That the level of fire the earth is experiencing is not just a symptom to human impacts, but the earth evolving, is profound. Thanks for elucidating that!!
We are watching humanity destroy itself and take the rest of multicellular life with it. Resources will tank; intra- and interstate war will rise; inevitably, it’ll go nuclear. You think India and Pakistan, for example, will just nobly divvy up the mass starvation as the Himalayan glacier-river system tanks? They’ve nearly gone nuclear three times over relative bullshit, not mass starvation. Full exchange means no photosynthesis for two years. It’s been modeled. Billions starve—and other nations won’t sit by. More wars, some genocides against useful internal targets. Collapse. A US-Russia full exchange ends it all: a decade of no photosynthesis.
Pay attention to the devastation that Ukraine is inflicting on the Russian economy with relatively low-cost drones. Russian civilians who have for years ignored the government's invasion of Ukraine ("three day special military operation") are losing every mark of comfort to which they have been accustomed: Fuel shortages, loss of major e-tail, farmers unable to harvest wheat.
If anything Putin is more likely to toss a nuke (if any still work and haven't been stripped by the black market) at Ukraine.
Thanks for the article, but why not advocate for innovations, like mine, which could both limit the spread of Catastrophic Forest Fires and also Capture Lots of CO 2, to mitigate the very Climate Change which is stimulating such Catastrophic Forest Fires?
The Earth and her living organisms are a massive homeostatic system. The species causing gross imbalance are being shaken off. But not only that, the Earth is reforming and changing herself even before we are gone. We get to watch some of it. I love that; it's reassuring.
"Instead, the transition happens through violent, discrete events..."
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Smooth forecast lines of trends are a major problem when deal with public expectation, especially when the coastal town manager is trying to address, say, sea level rise without busting the budget. The result is spending a very large chunk of money on some sort of resiliency project, only to find out it was too little, too late, when the money could have been used for something else.
Meanwhile, I'm the asshole that keeps telling people it's time for triage, and people have to fight being sentimental about things and places that they are attached to. That land you bought to retire to out West? There's no more water. That house in the Florida community that looked so good in the brochure will cost ever more to insure. The once-attractive Sun Belt will be known as the Dangerous Heat Belt.
The realtors, of course, will fight you all the way, but the property values and the associated tax revenue will go into a death spiral anyway.
That the level of fire the earth is experiencing is not just a symptom to human impacts, but the earth evolving, is profound. Thanks for elucidating that!!
We are watching humanity destroy itself and take the rest of multicellular life with it. Resources will tank; intra- and interstate war will rise; inevitably, it’ll go nuclear. You think India and Pakistan, for example, will just nobly divvy up the mass starvation as the Himalayan glacier-river system tanks? They’ve nearly gone nuclear three times over relative bullshit, not mass starvation. Full exchange means no photosynthesis for two years. It’s been modeled. Billions starve—and other nations won’t sit by. More wars, some genocides against useful internal targets. Collapse. A US-Russia full exchange ends it all: a decade of no photosynthesis.
Pay attention to the devastation that Ukraine is inflicting on the Russian economy with relatively low-cost drones. Russian civilians who have for years ignored the government's invasion of Ukraine ("three day special military operation") are losing every mark of comfort to which they have been accustomed: Fuel shortages, loss of major e-tail, farmers unable to harvest wheat.
If anything Putin is more likely to toss a nuke (if any still work and haven't been stripped by the black market) at Ukraine.
Thanks for the article, but why not advocate for innovations, like mine, which could both limit the spread of Catastrophic Forest Fires and also Capture Lots of CO 2, to mitigate the very Climate Change which is stimulating such Catastrophic Forest Fires?
The Earth and her living organisms are a massive homeostatic system. The species causing gross imbalance are being shaken off. But not only that, the Earth is reforming and changing herself even before we are gone. We get to watch some of it. I love that; it's reassuring.
"Instead, the transition happens through violent, discrete events..."
----
Smooth forecast lines of trends are a major problem when deal with public expectation, especially when the coastal town manager is trying to address, say, sea level rise without busting the budget. The result is spending a very large chunk of money on some sort of resiliency project, only to find out it was too little, too late, when the money could have been used for something else.
"Andrea Dutton PhD: Sea Level Rise - How Fast?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flHkeuOUSyc
Meanwhile, I'm the asshole that keeps telling people it's time for triage, and people have to fight being sentimental about things and places that they are attached to. That land you bought to retire to out West? There's no more water. That house in the Florida community that looked so good in the brochure will cost ever more to insure. The once-attractive Sun Belt will be known as the Dangerous Heat Belt.
The realtors, of course, will fight you all the way, but the property values and the associated tax revenue will go into a death spiral anyway.
It's inevitable, we must adapt, evreything is changing tanks to our irresponsibility , forcing us to change also, or disapear.