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https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/hasnt-earth...
Given how similar were societies across the globe even before globalization have started, I doubt you'll get something different even from humans on an isolated island if the island can support a big enough population to develop culture.
We can still survive this, but it is unprecedented.
We just need to discover the right set of incentives and I’m sure we’d coordinate and figure it out.
It’s a race at this point.
There are good things too! We recently launched the biggest rocket ever - that was pretty cool. Also we invented computers that can think, which seems likely to be useful! Giving up now would be like giving up in 1924 because corruption was rampant and the Spanish flu was still recent in the mind… our “polio vaccine” or “penicillin” is just around the corner, my friend
No, we didn't. They produce useful text but can't think. And to create these texts we produce more carbon dioxide in the process. And not all AI generated text are useful.
Renewable energy is growing.
Yet CO2 emissions are accelerating.
1 Step forward, 2 back.
It seems we are on the 'business as usual' trajectory. Which on any given day can seem ok.
If glaciers melt a source of drinking water is gone, that has an impact on the people who depend on it.
https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/glaci...