That's not the scientific consensus Anyone who says there's a hard cutoff point for "human survival" is making shit up
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And, bluntly, if there is a hard cutoff point and we have to get to it within ten years, that's fundamentally impossible and straight up not going to happen Bernie couldn't do it either Only conquering the whole world and ruling it with an iron fist could do it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattyglesias
Sanders didn't even propose to do it. Indeed, the scientific consensus expressed in that report was that a fundamental change in the social and economic system was necessary in order to ensure human survival.
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The IPCC report didn't say anything about "human survival" and hyperbolic messaging about all human life dying out or the oceans boiling etc is exactly what people have been saying not to say
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(It is tremendously unlikely the entire human species will ever die out, even in a worst case scenario of a massive ecological shift)
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We're looking at atmospheric changes that will render the ambient O2 levels incompatible with human life.
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Replying to @GwylAnarchaidd @mattyglesias
No, we aren't Human life exists in a diverse range of O2 levels right now (from the Himalayas to the Amazon), we aren't all suddenly going to die from an O2 overdose (a return to the Carboniferous Era would be too much O2, not too little)
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The issue scientists are warning of is insufficient O2, not excessive O2
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You may be getting confused about news stories about ocean deoxygenation, which is a result of climate change affecting the balance of life in the ocean, it's not the same thing as O2 vanishing from the Earth's atmosphere
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Again, the Carboniferous Era, which WAS the worst case scenario of climate change (the climate was much warmer because none of the fossil fuels the carbon got locked into existed yet), oxygen levels were much HIGHER, we had giant fern forests and huge bugs
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