On 8/17/16, Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
Arguing about anthropogenic climate forcing is just fucking useless. The latency is too great, and there are too many positive feedbacks. By the time that impacts are undeniable enough to motivate substantial reductions in CO2 emissions, it will be too late.
It's a bit of a race, how long can you consume faster than natural replenishment, and generally fuck shit up, before reaching the understanding, control, and technology needed to back you off the depletion and saturation points. The further you gamble under a negative rate condition, on your ability to push the event horizon of reaching positive replenishment and restoration, particularly as your negative rate is increasing (2nd derivative), the greater your odds of losing. Humans like to gamble, but Nature is the bookie, the house, programmer of the slots, printer of tokens, dealer, security, etc... To Her, right now, you're just a dumb patron, drunk on consumption, and She's going to win. Sober up.