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>>10997672
from: https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/documents/AQ-9%20Task%20Force%20Meeting%20%281980%29.pdf

The fact that retards are still stuck at debating climate change is proof that we aren't stopping shit.

www.climatefiles.com/collection-index/

Literally hundreds of pages worth of documentation from the oil companies themselves trying to figure out if burning fossil fuels will lead to hurting their bottom line, them finding out it will be worse than them just economically hurting their bottom line, scrapping all their research into the topic, and doubling down on riding this bitch into the dirt.

It's not just climate change, but it's the combination of our infinite growth economic system, overpopulation, resource depletion, and waste.

Collapse is reality. That is the threat. The system is going to get top heavy and come toppling down.

What are we going to do when peak oil is met? What are we going to do when the insurance industry falls apart because of continuously rising premiums? What are we going to do when we hit peak rare earth metals? What are we going to do when the aquifers run dry? What are we going to do when agricultural yields can only sustain their domestic production markets because of drought, flood, heat, and topsoil depletion? Where will people go when coastal cities (which house the majority of Earth's population) become inundated with flooding from encroaching sea levels and floods from high precipitation events? What will happen as snow pack reduces and water-starved cities/nations begin cutting off down-stream neighbors? What happens when our antibiotic abuse finally comes to bite us in the ass and we get a supercharged version of the Spanish flu? What of the wild fish populations that are collapsing from overfishing and coral bleaching? What are the implications of the insect die off we've been witnessing? What happens when wet-bulb temperatures become too high in high population regions like the Middle East and India?

If these questions aren't caused by climate change itself, they're exacerbated by it or related to it. They're individually complex problems, but it's the multitude of them all occurring around the same time that makes the situation dire.

It's not only as dangerous as we believe, but we're in over our heads. There isn't a pragmatic way out of this.

The only real questions are how many decades we have left of comfort and how fast collapse will accelerate. If we're lucky there won't be nuclear war and the clathrate gun hypothesis won't prove correct.

But we couldn't have prevented thi-

>Climate of Concern - Royal Dutch Shell (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VOWi8oVXmo [Embed]

>A photocopy of the minutes of a 1980 meeting of oil execs on the projected effects of burning their oil - "(2067) : Globally catastrophic effects"
pic related
https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/documents/AQ-9%20Task%20Force%20Meeting%20%281980%29.pdf