Because they never account for exponential consumption growth. It was “a few centuries” at current consumption.
While kicking The can down the road, you come across a sign.
BRIDGE OUT AHEAD
What do you do?
- Continue kicking the can, I’m sure it’ll be fine.
- I don’t believe in bridges.
- Even if God let the bridge collapse, which he wouldn’t, I’ll go to heaven if I fall and die, so who cares?
- Pick up the can and go find a dumpster.
- There’s squirrels in my pants! Jump to safety!
Only one century has passed since then, so we’re still good. It’s pollutin’ time!
That was probably fairly accurate at that time.
Look at the historical data here:
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
BTW, the large recent drop in co2 emissions, covid.
I never thought I’d say this, but looks like we need more pandemics!
Yeah but why did they need to get political about it?/s
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Oh how right/wrong they were… 😮
At that level of co2 production, they were probably right about the timetable. What they couldn’t predict is that co2 production would rise so dramatically with automobiles and industry in the decades after that. They were at 7 billion tons a year then. We are over 36 billion tons a year now, over 5 times as much. That has clearly expedited the effects on the climate.
That’s so cool to know! Oh wait I mean hot, and also not, well anyway thanks for sharing:-P.
just could not imagine the scale at which human civilization would escalate. Apart from that, spot on.
Chat, is this real?
WARKWORTH was Wokewarth, am I right?
