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pier25

This is the real danger.

We can control human emissions but not these feedbacks.

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> We can control human emissions

I'd say we can't even do that because human stupidity is fifth elemental force.

>I'd say we can't even do that because human stupidity is fifth elemental force.

I am definitely copying that. Very nice way of putting it.

Which shall be eradicated in 100-200 years. The stupid think they are clever than they are…destroying the very elements that enable us to exist.

Even if we get eradicated in 200 years, some effects of our stupidity (global warming included) will outlast us by millenia.

Yup, but everything will reset. If a tree falls on earth and no humans exist, does it matter? Of course but entities that don’t have a sense of human importance and time aren’t attached like the virus we are.

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