[bad_user]

Netflix has a pretty cool series called "One Strange Rock". You should watch it, they explain the Amazon's role well in one episode.

First of all oxygen is constant. Oxygen is currently not the problem. And it's a good thing that it's constant because we don't want more of it either.

The problem with Amazon is that on Earth it's all interconnected and while there's plenty of room for failure, there is a tipping point, scientists have only disagreed on where that tipping point is. Once we are there however we will no longer be able to stop the chain reaction.

[Retric]

There is no single tipping point. There are a vast number of different tipping points with different outcomes.

[BurningFrog]

There is this idea that the ecological balance is very fragile and easily destroyed.

This is true, in a way, but it doesn't mean nature will dies. It almost always just means that nature will find a new ecological balance.

[bad_user]

If nature finds a new ecological balance that's incompatible with human life, does it matter?

[BurningFrog]

This is more a Hollywood movie plot than something that really happens.

[zaroth]

Which is to say, there is no tipping point?

[Retric]

More that many systems are involved, and they are not all binary choices. So, local flooding for example does not operate on the same scale as ocean acidification.

[dmix]

So you see it being like the singularity that people predicted in tech/AI but for natural disasters?