How to: keep up with climate change impacts

Record the present as a marker of what will emerge eons down the line.



I suppose I am a doomer. If you want a round up of impacts to Earth systems by humans subscribe to this - 

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This is taken from the also excellent, but gloomy (and doomy) https://climatecasino.net/

In David Mitchell’s excellent novel The Bone Clocks, his character is writing from the perspective of 2040:

I take a deep, shuddery breath to stop myself from crying… it’s everything: it’s grief for the regions we deadlanded, the ice caps we melted, the Gulf Stream we redirected, the rivers we drained, the coasts we flooded, the lakes we choked with crap, the seas we killed, the species we drove to extinction, the pollinators we wiped out, the oil we squandered, the drugs we rendered impotent, the comforting liars we voted into office — all so we didn’t have to change our cosy lifestyles. People talk about the Endarkenment like our ancestors talked about the Black Death, as if it’s an act of God, but we summoned it with every tank of oil we burnt on our way through. My generation were diners stuffing ourselves senseless at the Restaurant of Earth’s Riches knowing — while denying — that we’d be doing a runner and leaving our grandchildren a tab that can never be paid.”

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