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You have to be supremely ignorant... Bordering on flat earther or evolution denial/young earth creationist... To believe this will work out like that..... This won't be a nice change of pace for your climate. It will be a mass extinction even humans have never experienced. It's obscene even. And this language of 'catastrophism' literally sounds like woo woo therapy speak by unscientific fools. Calling it not a "catastrophy' will be looked at as immoral as slavery in the future generation imo.

Holocene extinction - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

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>You have to be supremely ignorant... Bordering on flat earther or evolution denial/young earth creationist... To believe this will work out like that.....

Great place to start with flames.

>This won't be a nice change of pace for your climate. It will be a mass extinction even humans have never experienced. It's obscene even.

The science clearly says that isn't the case at all. Feel free to reference IPCC RCP8.5 scenarios where we magically find extremely more fossil fuels and burn those as well. No extinction is expected even in those scenarios.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene#Climate

The eocene was approximately 14celcius warmer than it is today and life thrived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Interglacial

During the last spike, the eemian, it was about 2 celcius warmer than today. Roughly 100,000 years ago, and that's roughly all we do expect to happen now. Life was thriving.

> During the last spike, the eemian, it was about 2 celcius warmer than today. Roughly 100,000 years ago, and that's roughly all we do expect to happen now. Life was thriving

Yes, because life can adapt in 100k years at a rate that it cannot in 100 years. And that life did not particularly care for preserving thousand-year-old human settlements.

> Great place to start with flames.

I am not the OP but if the point above flew you by then consider how much you have thought about the matter.

The Eocene was 45 million years ago. Humans have existed for less than 250k.

The interglacial warming is the most likely origin of the catastrophic global flood mythos across many cultures (including the Bible). And involved a scale of mass migration and suffering/death that would make modern sensibility recoil.

Your argument is like if I burned down your house or community but stated "well the forest will reclaim it in 10 thousand years and it will be beautiful and full of life! Is anything really even different on the grand scale?"

I care about the immediate future. And all the suffering and death, and the animals and plants that coevolved with us and ARE our evolutionary environment.

It's absurd and either supremely ignorant or bordering on malicious anti social behavior . The paradox of tolerance is being pushed to its limit.

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