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Geoffrey Deihl's avatar

I agree 100 percent we are massively overpopulated and would just add that overconsumption by a minority, particularly the billionaire class, is equally troublesome. And of course predatory capitalism ties to that. Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is my go to on that subject. There is no one source for complete information, Oxford or Stockholm, one of the reasons I peppered the article with many other links. Hell, on the rare occasions something from Fox or the NY Post lines up, I love it. I remember Elliot from Twitter, and have run across that Hiroshima comparison in a few places, boggling. Yup, Greenland ice sheet is done, and the Pentagon knew what was going on by 1990! I've touched on both of those issues. COP29 is coming up, and they are planning to expand oil production (I know, surprising). I hope to be as sarcastic as I was on COP28. Yes, screaming time is here. Watching the madness is infuriating. My theory is they want us dead, and I'm not joking. There's a gruesome logic to it. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/circumstantial-evidence

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Greeley Miklashek, MD's avatar

Thanks, Geoff, but I've seen this very incomplete report before. I totally omits the three most important elements of climate collapse, which, BTW, we are well into NOW: massive human overpopulation (3,000 times more numerous than were our last ecologically balanced and self-sustaining population--migratory Hunter-Gatherers/pastoralists), overconsumption driven by predatory capitalism, and atmospheric/land/ocean heat accumulation. The GHGs (CO2, water vapor, etc.) are responsible for a minor part of global heat accumulation, and nowhere is the central issue of heat production addressed. According to the calculations of polymath Eliot Jacobson, we are currently generating the heat energy equivalent of 20-30 Hiroshima nuclear bomb blasts PER SECOND, where each one releases 63 trillion BTUs. Nowhere have I seen a thorough accounting of heat energy production, and this piece from Oxford is equally lacking. For any nonbelievers, Greenland is losing 30 million tons of ice, as it captures 144 BTUs of heat energy/pound, hourly, and if that's not a "canary in the coal mine" indicator of our massive overproduction of heat energy, I don't know what else could possibly be more stark. The fossil fuel industry and, perhaps, a terrified Pentagon, do not want the general public to find out just how far down the road to total climate collapse we have already willfully blindly stumbled. Time to wake up the truth tellers and start screaming from every house top!

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