• BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Yep, it’s the reason I don’t have kids. It feels selfish to have something for myself that will spend most of its life suffering.

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      1 year ago

      It all depends on where the tipping points are, and there’s still a lot of uncertainty. If we can stop making things worse before we hit major irreversible changes to our environment, we can eke it out

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        1 year ago

        Permafrost is already melting in alarming amounts. We’d probably have to take drastic action immediately. I don’t mean in a few years or a decade. Now like, this year. But that’s not going to happen.

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          Thanks a lot: you made me look it up. The Wikipedia article has more potential climate tipping than I was aware of, and near the beginning they talk about fears of a tipping point cascade. I think that’s the end of my internet tonight