'the age of extinction is supported by theguardian.org'
bonus:
Eric Schmidt recently said "we can't solve climate change so we might as well go all in on AI". since we can't prevent Eric Schmidt's eventual death shouldn't he be guillotined immediately?
Eric Schmidt recently said "we can't solve climate change so we might as well go all in on AI"
I saw that take almost word for word from a fairweather leftist on this site.
I fucking hate inevitabilist arguments. They're less than useless, and if they were applied centuries ago they'd be "we can't end slavery so may as well expand it."
I forgot who, but it reminds me of that Fox News chud who said “eh, us humans had a good run! Let’s pollute the crap out of the world and go extinct! YOLO!”
One American Libertarian presidential candidate once said that the sun would envelop and destroy Earth in millions of years therefore climate change wasn't a problem. Similar vibes.
MFW Libertarianism (and pretty much all of right-wing ideology) is unironically just the Voluntary Human Extinction movement.
They’re not even protecting porky, they just unironically want us all to go extinct because they’re too lazy to clean up the mess they’ve made.
Going to engage in a little doomerism seeing as this is the com for it
We're so unbelievably fucked. Climate change is only going to accelerate from here. Entire cities and regions will be rendered uninhabitable. We will see a refugee crisis on a scale unheard of in all of history, and we will see the darkest possible reaction to said crisis.
The choice between socialism and barbarism has already been made, we just haven't seen the full extent yet
I thought this was well known by scientists, that with rising temperatures the effectiveness of the carbon cycle drops. Besides, wasn't it ocean phytoplankton the largest carbon sink, way more than forests?
Yeah but it’s concerning when plants who reliably use CO2 in a necessary function stop using carbon dioxide at the same level as before. Chloroplasts use the Calvin cycle and you can just look at an image and realize that carbon dioxide is vital to its reduction. So when this stops becoming effective this is the most likely result.
It's not "plants are no longer photosynthesizing," it's "the sources of emissions have caught up to sinks," largely thanks to changes in pest activity, soil respiration, and wildfires.
The ocean in general is by far the largest carbon (and heat) sink. Some of that is from photosynthesis--about 70% of all the photosynthesis on the planet happens in the ocean --and some of it is just brute absorption of CO2. That system is showing signs of flagging also, as increased temperatures reduce water's ability to hold CO2 and disruptions to thermohaline circulation hamper oceanic photosynthesis, but it was really land-based sinks that dramatically failed this year (partially because of all the wildfires).
This is why le Mars colony so important dae le can't have all eggs in one basket so let's burn the basket a bit faster and yeet one of the eggs against a brick wall!
so let's burn the basket a bit faster and yeet one of the eggs against a brick wall
: “hyuck hyuck! But carbon is good for plants!”
