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Wow, so nature was getting colder to give us a bit more room to make some extra heat and we beat that to death.
The Earth is always trying to become a snowball. It has a pattern that has been consistent for millions of millions of years. Homo Sapiens were basically survivalists that won the lottery because it was a warm side of the last cold period.
Make no mistake, the heat we feel now is nothing compared to the heat the planet has endured in the past. Dinosaurs had a much hotter world, with the poles being tropical forests. But the problem is we broke the normal hot and cold time cycle. And the next cold cycle is going to be a massive freeze and its going to happen in a flash (thousands of years) but when it does its going to mean that if we survive the heat, will we survive the next cold that could bring mile thick glaciers at the equator.
The bigger concern is the rate that the climate changes. The climate is always changing but we have sped up so significantly that many ecosystems will not be able to adapt in time to survive.
the adoption aspect is interesting and unpredictable. Just look at the pine beetle effect. It's making it possible to diversify the pine forests. If shit didn't happen so quickly, we wouldn't have to worry about the small newly establishing trees becoming ash because some assholes decided to celebrate their new baby announcement and burning down the dead pines before they can come down naturally