when i was a child, school programs told us about 🎵Reduce Reuse Recycle 🎶, and I can still sing one of those jingles. The county that I live in today, doesn't recycle: it asks you to sort your...
when i was a child, school programs told us about 🎵Reduce Reuse Recycle 🎶, and I can still sing one of those jingles. The county that I live in today, doesn't recycle: it asks you to sort your trash, and then they all get pushed into the same facility warehouse.
Climate change won't be like sudden power outage. It won't even be like a dimmer switch.
Instead, it's more like a cruel game of musical chair. The rich and powerful and down on ever dwindling chairs, but they don't get up between rounds, only the middle class chairs musical swap. As more chairs are removed, more and more peoples become displaced, and more and more rules will be in place to police/military the refugees.
There won't be any incentive to actually save the planet as long as there is police/private military available to maintain their power choke on livable land / climate dome
Land regions exposed to extreme heat in 2023 contributed a gross carbon loss of 1.73 GtC yr-1, indicating that record warming in 2023 had a strong negative impact on the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems to mitigate climate change.
The observation that 2023 had an exceptionally weak land sink despite being only a moderate El Niño constitutes a test bed for Earth System models which lack processes causing rapid carbon losses, such as extreme fires and climate-induced tree mortality in their projections, and may thus be too optimistic for estimating remaining carbon budgets. If very high warming rates continue in the next decade and negatively impact the land sink as they did in 2023, it calls for urgent action to enhance carbon sequestration and reduce greenhouse gasses emissions to net zero before reaching a dangerous level of warming at which natural CO2 sinks may no longer provide to humanity the mitigation service they have offered so far by absorbing half of human induced CO2 emissions.
when i was a child, school programs told us about 🎵Reduce Reuse Recycle 🎶, and I can still sing one of those jingles. The county that I live in today, doesn't recycle: it asks you to sort your trash, and then they all get pushed into the same facility warehouse.
Climate change won't be like sudden power outage. It won't even be like a dimmer switch.
Instead, it's more like a cruel game of musical chair. The rich and powerful and down on ever dwindling chairs, but they don't get up between rounds, only the middle class chairs musical swap. As more chairs are removed, more and more peoples become displaced, and more and more rules will be in place to police/military the refugees.
There won't be any incentive to actually save the planet as long as there is police/private military available to maintain their power choke on livable land / climate dome
Link to the paper mentioned: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12447