is enough to scare me, frankly. It's like Russian roulette - I don't need to *know* with absolute certainty that there is a bullet in the chamber to know that pulling the trigger is a really bad idea.
But even if we escape a repeat of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, six degrees of warming still means a breakdown of civilisation (and a mass extinction of both human and other life on a *slightly* less extreme level). And while that is not even remotely as bad as a wiping out of nearly all higher life forms on the planet, it's bad enough that I neither want to be around to see it happen, nor know that the next generation or the one after that will see it happen.
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Date: 2008-09-24 02:34 pm (UTC)Even just the possibility
Date: 2008-09-24 03:10 pm (UTC)But even if we escape a repeat of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, six degrees of warming still means a breakdown of civilisation (and a mass extinction of both human and other life on a *slightly* less extreme level). And while that is not even remotely as bad as a wiping out of nearly all higher life forms on the planet, it's bad enough that I neither want to be around to see it happen, nor know that the next generation or the one after that will see it happen.
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Date: 2008-09-24 08:14 pm (UTC)Well, we *may* be screwed.
Date: 2008-09-24 08:32 pm (UTC)