Ed Cockrell
1 min readNov 9, 2022

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Excellent summary of our climate horror show. Thank you for posting. My personal view is that our collective ability to address the situation at a speed (as in, like yesterday) to make any measurable difference is nil. The real question is how fast will the climate disaster unfold? Maybe much faster than anyone is prepared for. It’s all about hitting the tipping points that accelerate the chaos until the disruption to human enterprise and life cause a forced and sudden drop in population and the rise on human created greenhouse gases. At that point going forward nature will kick in to bring the planet to a new equilibrium. It’s a climate equilibrium that will be warmer for thousands of years. But also maybe a climate that will allow a small population of humans to carry on with some type of organized living. We also have to consider that chaos will impact a lot of dangerous human-made infrastructure (think nuclear reactors, etc) that will add to the catastrophe. My opinion is that panic will set in no later than 2030. Then by 2050 or so the game will be over. Nature wins.

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Ed Cockrell
Ed Cockrell

Written by Ed Cockrell

A North Carolinian by birth and life experience with some USMC thrown in. Realistic about life and death, but essentially a pragmatic optimist. Life will be.

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