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"Bad condition" is an understatement. We are already being badly hit by stronger, more frequent and more extended extreme weather. Massive heatwaves, flooded cities or cities running out of drinking water are seen as the new normal by now, and that was a process that took relatively few years. And that will be worse in ways that we might not imagine yet, even if we could label them as obvious in hindsight.

A higher global average temperature is not just a few tenths of degrees higher temperature in your normal day, it is the global climate system with a lot of extra energy, the triggering and empowering a bunch of positive feedback loops that push the change pedal down, and the impact that all of that have in other systems, like agriculture or economy.

It is a so complex system that the warming could even trigger an ice age, or quite the opposite of that, but in either case, it will be far worse than just bad for the people living through it. Disrupting a complex system we depend on is simply suicidal.



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