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I downvoted you because I'm tired of these pedantic statements that while technically true, are completely irrelevant to the conversation at hand. This is feedback so you can get better at effective communications.


The funny thing is that no other life on Earth builds charts, humans do.

So, no offense, but the pedantry is incorrect.


It is uncharted in the history of human civilization -- say, since the advent of agriculture 12K to 14K years ago.


If we are focusing on GP's pedantry, it's uncharted because charts are a human invention.


But how did Earth look back then at these conditions?

It certainly is uncharted territory for our current vegetation.


That's what uncharted means though. Uncharted territory still existed.


That's very reassuring nuance for any several-million-year-old societies hanging around. Doesn't do much for us though.


It's so weird to see this argument retreat to rhetoric that basically reduces to "What's your problem? It's not like the planet will become a lifeless wasteland. Something is going to survive!"

The median scenario we're looking at now (polar ice melting, large scale extinctions, universal ecosystem disruption, all over a few-hundred-year scale) is exactly the kind of "doomsday scenario" that all you people spent the past three decades denying was possible.




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