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If you take all the energy buried deep in the earth and under the oceans via photosynthesis and animal metabolism, energy from the sun that was packed away over a span of 500 million years as coal, oil, and gas... and then burn through that fuel in the brief period of about 200 years, what will happen?

Think about it.

We’re igniting all of the stored energy from half a billion years of life activity in only two centuries. That’s a ratio of 2.5 million to one — which means we are using this energy two and half million times *faster* than it was created and stored.

You know what that is? That’s a BOMB.

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2
Graph of atmospheric CO2 levels for the past 800,000 years, showing ups and downs but never exceeding 280 parts per million until the modern era — and today levels are at 427 ppm. Homo sapiens emerged only 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. Humans have never lived on a planet like this.
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yianiris
We convert energy stored chemically into mostly heat and motion. One of the characteristics of humans in the 20th century is they are moving many things over great distances very fast. But once something moves fast it takes heat to slow it down.

So maybe we need to slow down, stop moving so damn much other than by foot or bicycle, and cool off a bit, stop using so much machinery and constructing things. Then we may have a chance to make it to the next century.

@breadandcircuses
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