If you wanted to know how sick the world is going to get there's one answer - a fever that's going to run up to 7 degrees
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If I live out my projected lifespan I get to see the world literally physically irreversibly change, into god knows what
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It's a metaphor, just a universal principle - things don't just keep steadily getting worse, they hit a point of runaway chain reaction
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The hotter the earth gets the easier it is to get even hotter, as the processes that we're holding it in equilibrium break down
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Like a cancer that looks like a slow invisible growth until one day its spread to the heart and lungs and you only have hours to live
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Like a Check Engine light you just keep ignoring until one part breaks, which makes another jam, which makes another short out
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Then the system finds a new balance point. Cancer doesn't turn back into healthy cells, ashes don't turn back into trees, eggs don't unfry
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The same reasons the earth has resisted warming up till now mean that even with much greater tech cooling it back down will be impossible
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Whatever. "The earth" will obviously survive. Life will survive. Hell even people will survive, at least rich ones
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It'll just be a different world. Carboniferous Era, before all those gases were locked up. Weird fuckin fossils of alien looking life
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They have guesses abt what life was like back then. Hot and wet, huge swampy forests, giant bugs, constant winds like a permanent storm
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At least we are by large bodies of fresh water.
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