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It's longer than 5 minutes, but David Attenborough's new film: A Life On Our Planet [1] presents the issues were facing from unsustainable growth and offers solutions in maintaining robust biodiversity on our planet.

[1] https://www.attenboroughfilm.com/

What makes you believe temperature isn't accellerating? CO2 in the atmosphere won't go away on its own for hundreds of years, and trapping more and more heat will have exponential effects leading to chaotic climate instability. CO2 is not declining, even in the pandemic year it is still rising sharply way beyond extreme levels for tens of thousands of years: https://www.co2levels.org/

Please see David Attenborough's "A life on our planet" (Netflix) what exactly may happen and what to do before it's too late: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KglanVLBVrc

I highly recommend David Attenborough's 2020 Netflix documentary "A Life on Our Planet."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough:_A_Life_on_...

https://www.netflix.com/title/80216393

It is his "witness statement" on how he has personally observed enormous environmental changes over his ~70 year career documenting wildlife throughout the world.

I highly recommend David Attenborough's 2020 Netflix documentary "A Life on Our Planet."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough:_A_Life_on_...

https://www.netflix.com/title/80216393

It is his "witness statement" on how he has personally observed enormous environmental damage over his ~70 year career documenting wildlife throughout the world.

He argues that the solution is to reduce our population growth worldwide.

Myth #3 is about comparing CO2-levels from hundreds of million years ago. In about 4:03 it is showing solar output superimposed on top of the graph of CO2+temp etc. The meaning is that with higher solar output today, greenhouse gases will have more effect, than they did hundred million years ago.

The updated graph is probably just to show there's more nuance to the graph than the old version. It doesn't make sense to use very old graphs outdated by the author.

CO2 emissions are accellerating over time:

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gl_gr.html

The runaway effects will be from thresholds being broken, like acification of the ocean, burning of the tundra, deglacification and other events that humanity cannot influence or stop directly.

https://www.quora.com/When-will-the-world-s-oceans-lose-thei...

https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co...

https://knowledge.insead.edu/blog/insead-blog/the-ocean-cann...

While we do have negative feedback loops, lately, temperature looks to be accellerating as well:

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

Netflix has this documentary that explains further, ie. why biodiversity is needed.

David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet - "vision for the future" on 'how to fix' climate change :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KglanVLBVrc

Much of what passes for human industry is essentially just strip mining the planet of its natural resources. I’d recommend watching Sir David Attenborough’s A Life On Our Planet for a sobering view of the ecological footprint of non-Bitcoin human economic activity, which presumably you invest in one way or the other. Moving to a global deflationary economic system per Bitcoin would at least disincentivize the rampant consumerism destroying this planet via disincentivizing capital investment and spending.