For about 2% of the world’s amphibian species, it’s already getting too hot to survive in their natural habitats, according to a new study in Nature. If the planet keeps warming unchecked, this number is expected to jump to 7.5% by the end of the century.
“The Planet will be here we’ll be long gone, just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac, the planet will shake us off. Like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance”
I would like to explain my downvote.
This quote is part of a stand up comedy by George Carlin that was performed many decades ago. When I saw it on yt I really liked it.
This quote here, out of context is pure doomerism.
Then I suppose I’m a doomerist? Is that a word? In the next 100 years it’s going to become too hot to live for a billion people, the seas are going to displace a billion, and food won’t grow because we destroyed the soil and crops die from drought. A perfect recipe for some mega disasters that some people believe they can avoid using their wealth. And that’s using the low estimate for planet temperature increase due to just what humans have caused. The planet will be just fine. The people are fucked. And I feel awful we’re taking so many beautiful species with us.
I could say, I do share your anxiety about what will happen in the near future. Still, personally, I don’t like doomerism because imo it restricts our collective imagination towards solutions.
Apart from that, lets keep in mind that this is an article about amphibians specifically, not about saving the planet or humans in general.
We don’t need imaginative solutions, we already have the answers.
This is an open-book test and we continue to fail.
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