| I’m not sure if you’re playing devil’s advocate, but I’ll provide you with an earnest answer. On the face of it, your logic holds. However, the reality is that we don’t really know how complex social/ environmental /financial systems will react in the face of climate change so your predictions, and your examples: Florida, polar bears are a very limited subset of possibilities. As just one clusterfuck example with which I am familiar, but which is not much considered: 1. Increasing crop production volatility...
2. Leads to banks pulling credit lines to farmers
3. Which leads to 75% decline in crop production
4. Which leads to massive displacement of people
5. Which leads to...(something outside of my field of expertise but probably not good). I’d prefer to avoid the above scenario, even though I’m not sure it’s possible. Within our complex global system which is growth dependent for social stability, I wonder if applying the breaks will lead to devastating social breakdown. Doomed if we do, doomed if we don’t. This talk at Cambridge helped me think a little more about the issue: https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1C0DVEcZwaif9i6vxQs75... |