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cbabe

(6,812 posts)
Sun Aug 4, 2024, 02:28 PM Aug 2024

Before It's Gone

Jonathan Vigliotti
Simon & Schuster
2024

Stories from the front lines of climate change in small-town America



Bits of daily news of rain or fire. Vigliotti pulls ecological disasters all together in one real time terrifying emergency.

Highly recommend. Scary as heck.

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Before It's Gone (Original Post) cbabe Aug 2024 OP
I am convinced that the scientist worse case scenarios are... S/V Loner Aug 2024 #1

S/V Loner

(9,561 posts)
1. I am convinced that the scientist worse case scenarios are...
Sun Aug 4, 2024, 03:54 PM
Aug 2024

going to be closer to the best case scenarios when all is said and done. I keep thinking about the butterfly effect and I don't think anyone can fathom just how interactive and reliant on other forces our climate actually is. The truth is that they can't accurately predict weather a week out because of how complicated it is let alone decades. I remember last summer a comment from someone in NYC's climate task force saying the wildfire smoke from Canada was not even on their planning radar.
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells had a major impact on me.

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