re: #66 freetoken

Widely reported, but in case you missed it, the NC state senate doesn’t like scary predictions… so it just outlaws them:

Senate committee likes the slow-rise approach for sea-level forecasts

They aren’t going to like this one:

We’re about to push the Earth over the brink, new study finds

There’s a new scientific paper out in the journal Nature called “Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere.” In a sane world, it would be front page news. This is from the abstract:

Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to another when they are forced across critical thresholds. Here we review evidence that the global ecosystem as a whole can react in the same way and is approaching a planetary-scale critical transition as a result of human influence.
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This write-up from Wired adds some context:

“Human activity now dominates 43 percent of Earth’s land surface and affects twice that area. One-third of all available fresh water is diverted to human use. A full 20 percent of Earth’s net terrestrial primary production, the sheer volume of life produced on land every year, is harvested for human purposes.”