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Is runaway global warming inevitable? If so, where will it stop [Permian extinction replica]?
China has surpassed USA as the #1 CO2 emitter, India [population over 1.3 billion] will soon surpass us [if they haven't already]. 3rd world countries will continue to develop, hikes in CO2 emissions is to be expected. Thanks to fracking, extracting fossil fuels is more efficient [thus cheaper] than ever. We are far from it, but is a Permian level extinction inevitable [growing deserts engulf the world]?
I understand we aren't in a ''big'' event yet, but is it inevitable? Where will we stop? BTW a 6th mass extinction was recently identified [so it's not the big 5 anymore], the new event recently discovered is being dubbed the carnian pluvial event [mid Triassic]. So half of the big extinctions were from the Permian to the end of the Triassic...tough times.
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- Anonymous8 months agoFavorite Answer
The real question is we as humans are smart enough to choose not to wait and see.
India has 4 times as many inhabitants as the USA, so logically if its CO2-emissions are less than 4 times those of the USA, they are doing better than the USA.
Fracking is not cheap, and comes with risks to drinking-water.
The whole world needs to reduce consumption. The earth cannot sustain billions of meat-devouring, tobacco-smoking motorists and airconditioners.
Populations need to get smaller, especially in the *rich* countries [and the best way to get there is by giving all girls enough education to have a career outside motherhood]
- Anonymous8 months ago
demlibs only care about America and how much they can ruin America
- Anonymous8 months ago
What? Wait, no, no ,no! You're doing it wrong. It's supposed to go "OMG! We're all going to die unless white people shut down their factories and go live in the woods!". You're all over the place here. China. India. Don't you know that most of those people are BROWN? Brown good. White bad. That's how you fight racism and fighting racism is how you fight global warming.
(is it inevitable? Don't know. Don't really care. If our choices are "Muslims get to execute gay people with a cool spring breeze and green grass" or "We all fry", I'll take the frying. If the left wants me to care about global warming, they have to care about the Muslim problem first)
- JeancommunicatesLv 78 months ago
Do you really believe that mankind can control the atmosphere? I trust the Lord to handle it. Just another attempt to spend money. Before God lets the earth turn into a complete desert, He will return and renew all things. The majority of the earth is water and man knows very little about the oceans. Hey, if you are hot now, the weatherman says a very cold winter is coming. As long as the earth remains, God said we'll have spring, summer, fall and winter. Trust in the Lord.
- marsel_duchampLv 78 months ago
Unlikely it would be like that. Is an extinction level event inevitable? Probably based on the fact there have been 5 in the past for various reasons. The timing and cause of the next one is anybody's guess. This current climate change is expensive, disruptive, and was avoidable but not rising to the the level of any extinction event.
