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lapfog_1

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2. they keep saying "in the next 100 years or so"
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 11:56 PM
Aug 2018

and almost no one alive today reading this will be alive in 100 years... which leads to this sort of "let someone else deal with this" attitude.

Thing is... it might not be 100 years or so... it might be 20 years. Or 10.

we really don't know how fast the climate can change... and I suspect it behaves like a chaotic system that achieves a sort of stability that is self-reinforcing... but when perturbed hard enough for long enough, changes to a new "stable" very quickly, not over 100 years, but maybe only 20 years... and we might be at the beginning of that 20 year period right now.

Or maybe it's 40 years... idk... but it might affect anyone under the age of 50 or 60. Will we be able to feed 8 billion people in 20 years with a vastly different climate? or even moderately different climate?

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