Re:To make progress on climate change, we must move past doo...
by Nevermark on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:49AM
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I would argue the opposite. The rate of change due to biological impact on Earth has been slowly speeding up ever since life developed.
Changes that used to take hundreds of millions of years now happen in decades. And there is no sign of slow down.
I am not arguing negatively or positively about the future, simply that the efficiency of innovation and scaling new changes are increasing, so the rate of change continues to increase.
This is the Holocene.
I think geo-engineering the planet is inevitable, completely aside from that as a climate issue. We already have many planet wide systems, and the number and scale of them are growing.
Changes that used to take hundreds of millions of years now happen in decades. And there is no sign of slow down.
I am not arguing negatively or positively about the future, simply that the efficiency of innovation and scaling new changes are increasing, so the rate of change continues to increase.
This is the Holocene.
I think geo-engineering the planet is inevitable, completely aside from that as a climate issue. We already have many planet wide systems, and the number and scale of them are growing.