A dangerous heat wave is bringing sweltering temperatures to much of the US this weekend, including over parts of the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic. Meanwhile, a tropical system could develop this weekend through the southwest Gulf of Mexico.
A dangerous heat wave is bringing sweltering temperatures to much of the US this weekend, including over parts of the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic. Meanwhile, a tropical system could develop this weekend through the southwest Gulf of Mexico.
It’s a nAtUrAl CyClE
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The death of many people from excessive heat and other effects of climate change will be quite a natural consequence of our hubris indeed.
The earth changing in massive ways that cause mass extinctions and upend everything that all the existing life had come to rely on, is part of the cycle of natural history, too. The earth can actually bounce back from it pretty quickly, in geological terms. Just, it normally happens so rarely that the chances are astronomically against any given organism having to live through it and all the death and suffering that goes with it on an individual time scale. And of course on any individual lifetime scale it’s absolutely permanent, and irreversible. Here’s one pretty fascinating example
We’re just lucky, I guess. We will have a chance to understand what’s happening and why it is our fault, and feel regret and anger as we’re watching the catastrophe, those of us that live long enough to see the true shape of it.