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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries

There are more than enough apocalypses to go around even if the optimists are right about this one.



It seems more than likely that multiple of those will occur since we as a species tend not to change our behavior if a large enough profit/cost is involved. "We will probably go on solving our problems by borrowing from the future until we are forced by the consequences of our own behavior to change." Octavia E. Butler


Yeah, aside from the much bleaker predictions of the article, we shouldn't forget just how exceptional and fragile the current interglacial is : we were already overdue for the end of it (give or take a few thousand years) !




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