[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?