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No, this timeline started with “Shit, our calculations show that we might ruin the world in just a few decades at this rate. Oh, well. Probably best not to mention this to anyone.”

This xkcd is what finally resolved the "is it us or natural variation" question for me: https://xkcd.com/1732/

There's no oops or fuck about it. They are gleefully driving us off the cliff like Thelma and Louise with conservatives cheering the whole way down.

The best we can hope for is to exact some form of harsh justice before nature has its way with them. We are already dead either way. Will they die in luxury or will they die in the streets with the rest of us?

We've entered the 'this is the new normal now, get used to it' phase.

Don't disagree with this at all, just noting that the start of that line could be stretched much further back, we have known that human consumption of coal was having/would have a detrimental impact on climate for well over 100 years 1856, 1902, 1912
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Sadly in that timeline, profit has always mattered more than humanity (or the planet).

Stage 1: "Climate change is my responsibility to fix as an average citizen!"

Stage 2: "Actually, fixing climate change is the responsibility of the megacorporations causing it."

Stage 3: "Climate change is my responsibility to fix as an average citizen!" (said while researching sabotage and mutual aid)

You're missing an important step.

There's denial, then acceptance but brushing off blame, and then accepting blame but with apathy.

"OK fine, climate change is real, and it is caused by humans, but there's nothing we can do about it, so by bother?"

The mastermind behind all this must be building fallout vault-like structures to allow people to survive the planet when all is said and done. They will rule the world in the end, perform experiments, whatever they want.

There should definitely be a BP stage in there too

Now we're in the "take your Xanax while daddy Bill Gates fixes everything for you" phase.

What really sucks is that we are penalizing newer, greener technologies in order to prop up older non-profitable technologies.

There is a huge subsidy in the US for coal power plants. That needs to wind down, preferably in the next 4 years.

A few states charge higher registration fees for hybrid and electric vehicles, while at the same time suppressing or almost eliminating the gas tax during post-pandemic inflation.

Certain groups are dead set on boiling the the frog here, without even realizing that they are a lobster in the same pot of water.

Where are we now?

I think we're currently in the "oops" phase heading towards "fuck"

My personal human timeline:

• End of dark ages up to industrial revolution: Wow, people are getting pretty dang smart, things are looking good for humanity.

• Industrial revolution up to present: Well, on second thought...

I don't care if it is caused by humans or natural causes ( and it's likely both). The issue is that it's a problem, because we've evolved to live in a cool environment (relative to wherever this is going). Part of responsibly using this planet we find ourselves on is terraforming it to sustainably and efficiently suit our needs. I support decarbonization because it helps. But due to other natural factors effecting our environment for the worse (as far as we as a species are concerned), we will need to take more artificial measures to cool the planet in the future.

But the first step is decarbonization. We have two choices - accept natural inefficiencies and extreme conditions, and slowly lose our intelligence in exchange for resilience (evolutionary "crabification"), or terraform the planet to a constant, efficient environment to continue developing as an intelligence.

We are caught, environmentally, in a neutral zone between extreme fluctuations that will continue until the earth cools entirely from its formation. We did not exist during the last extreme. And if we do not prevent the next, our species will not survive.