Re:Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of...
by tuatoru on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:09PM
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It has not always been this way. This is completely new territory for us.
Up until about 1900 nature was in control. Now, humans and domestic livestock are nearly all the land animals that exist. [1] [2]
Climate change is bad--very bad--but its main effect is going to be on other risks. Global thermonuclear war (which is also new in civilization terms) remains the biggest risk (probability x cost). Climate change ratchets up the probability of GTW.
Up until about 1900 nature was in control. Now, humans and domestic livestock are nearly all the land animals that exist. [1] [2]
Climate change is bad--very bad--but its main effect is going to be on other risks. Global thermonuclear war (which is also new in civilization terms) remains the biggest risk (probability x cost). Climate change ratchets up the probability of GTW.
1. https://www.ecowatch.com/biomass-humans-animals-2571413930.h...
2. Graphical representation: https://xkcd.com/1338/