Earth's atmosphere hasn't had this much CO2 in millions of years
Earth's atmosphere hasn't had this much CO2 in millions of years
New data shows that CO2 levels have broken through 430 parts per million, an indication that human-caused global warming will continue to warp the environment.
Earth for millions of years was a paradise with a stable climate ... and it would have stayed that way for millions of more years unless it got hit by an asteroid or major geo-tectonic events happened.
But we managed to screw it up in about 100 years
Just think of all that value created for shareholders!
I keep imagining some stock financial ticker tape system that keeps operating on its own even after we're gone and our environment can no longer sustain life.
Nothing is alive any more ... but the ticker tape keeps pumping along, raising the price of the whatever its counting and generating imaginative wealth that no one will ever understand.
Hmm, "millions of years" is technically correct but "paradise" is very much in the eye of the beholder, and "stable" is really only valid if you're considering very short and selective time windows...
https://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2007/11/how-the-air-we-breathe-became-breathable/
Or rather, the longest stable period we're aware of is when the atmosphere was full of methane.
The thing is that ... WE .. caused the change ... the negative change that will severely affect all human lives now and into the future.
It's like we started the truck engine inside our enclosed garage and we are arguing with each other that we don't want to turn off the engine, no matter how lightheaded we are getting.
Not trying to be morbid, but bluntly...
As a US'ian, between current US politics and Climate Change, I take much solace in the fact there are significantly fewer days in front of me than there are behind me.
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We are like a CO2 bomb, there has never been so much put into the air in such a small time scale, what usually takes 1000s and millions of years we did in ~100 years.
Careful how you phrase this. The right wing anti-woke crusaders will retort "oh, so you're saying this level of CO2 is natural after all?"
The level is natural, just not the amount of time that it took to get here from pre industrial levels. It will continue to climb as well.
why any person would choose to bear progeny only to immerse them into this inescapable sea of poison and suffering, one cannot understand.
AI can fix it.
(Or make it worse as we race to power it.)
AI won't even care since AI doesn't have to breathe. Why do we think a sentient AI would actually give a fucking shit about human interests at all? Its about as absurd in believing in a loving God who wants to save us, except it's the hubris of thinking we can create that God.
Welp I think my generation will bring down the life expectancy for the first time in 50 years after so much CO2 we inhale every single day
This must be that winning thing.