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Eight: Mark Lynas on climate change

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Is There Still Uncertainty About Climate Change?

There's still a lot of uncertainty on how things are going to go at these higher levels. We're already perilously close to the possible tipping point where that ecosystem becomes non viable. But we somehow seem perfectly happy to to tolerate that for our home planet. I think socital collapse and extinction happen a good proportion, but i don't know if it will be better or worse than now.

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