If disastrous developments are just around the corner, how could we anticipate that? Who is qualified to talk about dooms?
There is, however, one looming big difference.
Acid rain was addressed (although far from actually being solved).
The ozone hole was addressed and seems today to be stabilising.
The GHG, which at minimum intensify global warming and at maximum drive the whole process, are still not properly addressed, and total GHG concentration is still ramping up and accelerating. The doom scenarios ramp up accordingly.
It's chaos theory - and the longer the earth is exposed to it, the more erratic it can get - I do think that.
The problem is that there might be some term we do not foresee or that the level of linearity breaks down sooner than expected and irrelevant forces became stronger..
Difficult to foresee... but the more we push the parameters (as the CO2 in the atmosphere..) the more changes we will find vey upleasant scenario..
that is why glboal warming will be either a grave phenomena or a catastrophe in 100 years... who knows?
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
We might be reaching such a threshold for climate gases, as the earth system's capacity for taking up CO2 is diminishing. See this guardian article.
Acid rain was addressed (although far from actually being solved). The ozone hole was addressed and seems today to be stabilising.
Pundits! Darn you all to Heck! We have met the enemy, and it is us — Pogo
I am not really sure how you spin optimism out of THAT. The Fates are kind.
