It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change
is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't
happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of
sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors
are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.
Over the past decades, the term "Anthropocene" has climbed into the
popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now,
one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however
sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the
natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to
consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering
first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go
to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the
meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we
live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living
nightmare.
The Uninhabitable Earth : A Story of the Future - David Wallace-Wells
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