Global Catastrophic Environmental Risks: systemic collapse from anthropogenic environmental change

Global Catastrophic Environmental Risks: systemic collapse from anthropogenic environmental change with Luke Kemp (CSER), Jason Hickel (Goldsmiths, University of London), Joan Diamond (Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere), and Veerabhadran Ramanathan (University of California, San Diego).

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[PiatekMichal]

I really appreciate this was posted online. It helps people like me without any scientific background to understand the climate crisis in greater detail. Thank you.

[clarkdavis]

The first speaker seems to have his facts straight on planetary decline, but he also seems way to optimistic as the mere suggestion of 2100 seems laughable at this rate.

[annibjrkmann]

We are so fucked, nobody is seeing this or anything else that matters.
Collapse is coming

[anthonyburton]

Fossil fuels subsidies, these are the only words that you need to know about where the political mentality is going to take the entire world. This is insane and should have ended decades ago! Its public investment into the hot house earth. All subsidies should be going to renewable energy! If subsidies are not ended for Fossil fuels then the rest of do nothing mentality will remain.

[cristianpopescu]

Data records of ice in Grönland shows two things: co2 level was higher many times in the past, with no human activity., 2): there is no correlation between co2 high level in the ice bubble and warm climate periods.
Recent discovery shows before 120 000 years there were no ice shield at the poles, and nobody got extinkt!
By the way all co2 of the fossils were in the air in the beginning and live were great .

[badhombre]

Utter rubbish.
Here's a simple question for every climate doom and gloomer.
What is the Scientific Method and how does climate science conform to it?