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A powerful editorial by George Monbiot of the Guardian.

I often try to see the world’s actions through the lens of an alien race observing us from outside, which is a similar thought experiment to the article’s.

That lens helps surface all our contradictions, hypocrisy, idiosyncrasies, tribalism, and collective inability to fight the greatest Moloch of all times

A powerful editorial by George Monbiot of the Guardian.

I often try to see the world’s actions through the lens of an alien race observing us from outside, which is a similar thought experiment to the article’s.

That lens helps surface all our contradictions, hypocrisy, idiosyncrasies, tribalism, and collective inability to fight the greatest Moloch of all times

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/15/dying-earth-cop29-azerbaijan-species

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Well, there certainly are shades of “dying”, ranging from “dying is a natural process that begins at birth” to “every living thing will be extinct by the end of the century”.

Semantically speaking, the planet itself cannot die. But we’re losing species at 1K–10K the natural extinction rate (https://wwf.panda.org/discover/our_focus/biodiversity/biodiversity). And when a species dies, so do its predators, and so on until the food chain has collapsed (and we’re just at the top of it).

That’s not only due to CO2 emissions but also deforestation / encroachment into natural habitats, and chemical / plastic pollution.

As far as CO2 is concerned, we’ve blown past the lesser Paris goal of 1.5°C warming meant for the end of the century and are well on track to blow past 2°C. The damage is unfortunately not linear because of feedback loops and tipping points (ocean acidification, AMOC stilling, clathrate gun, etc). 1/2

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“Our dying earth” is a bit hyperbolic no? US+EU carbon emissions peaked years ago, the fast growing emitter is China

I’m more worried about the all seeing eye than the dying earth.