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Ed Cockrell's avatar

Thank you, Richard, for doing the hard work required to keep your subscribers informed on this critical subject. None of it makes me happy, but at least I have a better sense of what perilous times we have entered into. I feel truly sad for the children who will live in such challenging times for all life on earth. Parents of the lovely children can’t really express to their offspring how bad things will be for them because it would be dampening hope and joy. We are locked into hope for abundance while also trying to fight rising greenhouse gases. It seems to me that the squeeze is going to be intense and probably lead us rapidly into destructive wars, like the one just started in the Middle East between Israel and Iran. Maybe it will be contained or maybe it won’t. But if destructive climate events are rapidly spiraling to greater intensity it also seems likely that our human emotions and actions will also spiral outward to greater levels of destruction across all realms of economics, politics, and social interaction.

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Michael's avatar

What an excellent report. It deserves the widest readership both in the public arena and in policy-making circles. I am in agreement. "Hotter than expected - Sooner than expected." has been my mantra for years now. What I worry about is that even if society does everything right in terms of taking mitigating actions immediately, it will be too late. The momentum toward collapse is too strong if we look at society as a living organism, we can safely assume that it doesn't have infinite energy to achieve its goal. As its survival becomes threatened it will divert more and more of its energy to protecting itself at the expense of its other functions. That is the equation leading to its collapse.

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