[barbacoa]

Downvotes don't make this statement any less of a possibility. As CO2 increases plants use less water in respiration, making deserts greener. This is part of the reason the Earth is becoming greener despite human activity. For some reason climate change activists always ignore mitigating forces.

[wh313]

How much does this greening offset the other effects of climate change, such as increased severe weather, ecosystem loss, and water scarcity, among other things [1] ?

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...

[barbacoa]

Well technically if you take the vigorousness of life in Earth's biomes as your metric, climate change has been a net positive.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...

[wh313]

This brings up the question, why should that be the metric to measure the effects of climate change with, as compared to the other metrics we go by?