How much warming is in the pipeline now CO2 has increased by 50%? Climate Sensitivity should provide the answer, but the uncertainty is huge. The future implications are significant.
add to this further deforestation and ground water depletion, I have been throwing around the idea
The imperative is to understand the true time associated with evolution and come to the understanding that this is in conflict with our economic system, In all context we are out of time and therefore should not associate the time value of money with evolutionary time, once we free ourselves of this we will be able to create the money as a separate ledger for the ecological necessities and fully employ the huge underutilized resource of human capital in many parts of the world for this essential endeavor. Nature is not our slave and gives us trillions of dollars of benefits every year, Governments need a separate ledger to account for this so we can print this money to look after it.
One thing I noticed a few decades ago working in NZ was the undercutting at the base of the steep estuarial land boundaries with very little ocean rise and increased wave action , One could only imagine what will happen when whole mountain sides are undercut and the slopes start sliding into the ocean. Stability in some contexts is standing on a razors edge
You are right. The current rate of environmental change is orders of magnitude faster than evolution can cope with. If you look back at the major and minor extinctions of the past, many happened because the environment and climate changed too fast for the ecology to adapt. We are currently warming at 10x the rate of the end of the last glaciation, at least that of the PETM and End-Permian. Those two were driven by CO2 outgassing from large igneous provinces, but even those outgassed 100x slower than our human emissions today. No wonder we are losing insect biomass at 2% per year.
We have only just started to scrape the surface of the changes on the way.
add to this further deforestation and ground water depletion, I have been throwing around the idea
The imperative is to understand the true time associated with evolution and come to the understanding that this is in conflict with our economic system, In all context we are out of time and therefore should not associate the time value of money with evolutionary time, once we free ourselves of this we will be able to create the money as a separate ledger for the ecological necessities and fully employ the huge underutilized resource of human capital in many parts of the world for this essential endeavor. Nature is not our slave and gives us trillions of dollars of benefits every year, Governments need a separate ledger to account for this so we can print this money to look after it.
One thing I noticed a few decades ago working in NZ was the undercutting at the base of the steep estuarial land boundaries with very little ocean rise and increased wave action , One could only imagine what will happen when whole mountain sides are undercut and the slopes start sliding into the ocean. Stability in some contexts is standing on a razors edge
You are right. The current rate of environmental change is orders of magnitude faster than evolution can cope with. If you look back at the major and minor extinctions of the past, many happened because the environment and climate changed too fast for the ecology to adapt. We are currently warming at 10x the rate of the end of the last glaciation, at least that of the PETM and End-Permian. Those two were driven by CO2 outgassing from large igneous provinces, but even those outgassed 100x slower than our human emissions today. No wonder we are losing insect biomass at 2% per year.
We have only just started to scrape the surface of the changes on the way.