New data shows that CO2 levels have broken through 430 parts per million, an indication that human-caused global warming will continue to warp the environment.
Earth for millions of years was a paradise with a stable climate … and it would have stayed that way for millions of more years unless it got hit by an asteroid or major geo-tectonic events happened.
I keep imagining some stock financial ticker tape system that keeps operating on its own even after we’re gone and our environment can no longer sustain life.
Nothing is alive any more … but the ticker tape keeps pumping along, raising the price of the whatever its counting and generating imaginative wealth that no one will ever understand.
Most trades now are done by bots looking at ticker symbols, they don’t need human intervention. The human race can vanish from the Earth and the bots will keep trading as long as the datacenters have power.
Hmm, “millions of years” is technically correct but “paradise” is very much in the eye of the beholder, and “stable” is really only valid if you’re considering very short and selective time windows…
The thing is that … WE … caused the change … the negative change that will severely affect all human lives now and into the future.
It’s like we started the truck engine inside our enclosed garage and we are arguing with each other that we don’t want to turn off the engine, no matter how lightheaded we are getting.
Earth for millions of years was a paradise with a stable climate … and it would have stayed that way for millions of more years unless it got hit by an asteroid or major geo-tectonic events happened.
But we managed to screw it up in about 100 years
Just think of all that value created for shareholders!
I keep imagining some stock financial ticker tape system that keeps operating on its own even after we’re gone and our environment can no longer sustain life.
Nothing is alive any more … but the ticker tape keeps pumping along, raising the price of the whatever its counting and generating imaginative wealth that no one will ever understand.
And so, WALL-ST-E, was born
lol … beautiful
but … WALL-E-ST … sounds better
Most trades now are done by bots looking at ticker symbols, they don’t need human intervention. The human race can vanish from the Earth and the bots will keep trading as long as the datacenters have power.
I saw a depressing comic like that… civilization has collapsed, no humans left, and the invisible hand of the market keeps raising prices.
I tried to find it for you but there are a lot of invisible hand of the market comics and I’m not good enough to find it :(
This sounds so …Doug Adams.
Hmm, “millions of years” is technically correct but “paradise” is very much in the eye of the beholder, and “stable” is really only valid if you’re considering very short and selective time windows…
https://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2007/11/how-the-air-we-breathe-became-breathable/
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Evolution-of-the-composition-of-the-Earths-atmosphere-through-geological-time-Catling_fig3_368716310
Or rather, the longest stable period we’re aware of is when the atmosphere was full of methane.
The thing is that … WE … caused the change … the negative change that will severely affect all human lives now and into the future.
It’s like we started the truck engine inside our enclosed garage and we are arguing with each other that we don’t want to turn off the engine, no matter how lightheaded we are getting.
Define unstable then??
gestures at all of observed reality
If it’s so unstable, I wonder how it’s still here for you to observe?
Fuck yeah we did 💪
Take that dolphins!