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You may have heard the idea that climate change will, in the worst-case scenario, cause the collapse of human civilization as we know it today. How could this happen? If you have been watching recent headlines, then you know that humanity has now received the worst climate news possible, where we can see a direct path to utter catastrophe from climate change.

Planet Earth is standing on a precipice, where irreversible climate change tipping points are about to trigger. If they trigger, the topic of climate change will shift from “problematic” to “completely catastrophic for all life on Earth.” Things will change from “maybe with a concerted effort humanity can solve the climate crisis” into “there is nothing we can do to put the genie back into the bottle, and humanity is doomed.” Here are four articles that tell the tale:

World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... tudy-finds

Climate change: Six tipping points ‘likely’ to be crossed
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62838627

The world may have already crossed 5 climate tipping points
https://grist.org/climate/report-climat ... el-danger/

Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn7950

And then PBS issued this explanatory video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBKZWKeKYqE

It is easy to understand why the collapse of the Thwaites glacier is irreversible. If it collapses, it will raise sea levels by many feet, inundating and destroying coastal cities and beaches. Trillions of dollars in damage will occur. Once the damage is done, there is no possible way to undo it: There is no way that humanity will ever be able to put the glacier back and lower sea levels again.

In other words, either humanity MUST save the Thwaites glacier now, or there will be trillions of dollars in irreversible damage that occurs to all of our coastal cities. In addition, there will be millions of climate refugees from these cities who will have to go somewhere. Take Miami as one example city. Miami will disappear when the Thwaites Glacier collapses. This means that 6 million Miami residents will need to move somewhere else. See this video for details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY3mXFXd3GU

@Bao,

Tipping point for US here already
Hopefully the world makes it through it

Steve James wrote:Afa a tipping point, I don't think there's one for the species. I agree that "civilization" may not survive as it is. Then again, there are plenty of people in the US who don't have clean water, let alone internet access. And, that's hardly unique to the US.

Afa Ukraine, criticisms of support are meaningless. The opinions that count are those of Ukrainians. They're the ones being killed because of the invasion.
Putin is the only one making nuclear threats, saying it's not a bluff. He's mobilizing 300K reservists.

We'll have to see how that sits with Russians. But, afa the nuclear option, how does one claim to be a liberator and then say you're willing to nuke the country?
Would he nuke just the Ukrainians? And, what if the US/UK then supplies Ukraine with nuclear cruise missiles? Why not? Mutually assured destruction is a deterrent.

Anyway, I do agree that it's always best to look at the man in the mirror.

Providing lethal aid to Ukraine would exploit Russia’s greatest point of external vulnerability.


But any increase in U.S. military arms and advice to Ukraine would need to be carefully calibrated to increase the costs to Russia of sustaining its existing commitment without provoking a much wider conflict in which Russia, by reason of proximity, would have significant advantages.

The West left Moscow no choice but to launch a special military operation, after it created and nurtured “a Russophobic neo-Nazi regime” in Kiev and sent weapons into Ukraine in order to turn it into a “springboard for containing Russia,” the foreign minister explained.

Putin is the only one making nuclear threats, saying it's not a bluff.
He's mobilizing 300K reservists.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday morning that Moscow would “use all the means” at its disposal to defend Russia, referring to statements by officials in NATO countries about using nuclear weapons against Russian troops.

windwalker wrote:Russians are dying also,

Wonder if the Ukrainians agreed with the plan