The Disastrous 2024 CO2 Data Recorded at Mauna Loa: Yet Another Update 12/08/2024

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4. I read these warnings from time to time.

Exponential growth is scary and fatal. Economies grow and grow, and chew resources. Green consumption only delays the inevitable for a few years.

The human species will survive in caves, if they can find food. Those will be what's left of moderate temperatures and without plastic.

GHWB told us to plant trees. I did my part. I do feel we have longer growing seasons now, from late Feb/early March. That extra 6 weeks has boosted growth. In the 80s I estimated tree growth to be in the 7-9% range. Now I'm estimating 12-15%. I doubt it's helping much, and with all the forest fires it's still a negative.

Soon nothing will be insurable - houses, buildings. But people will still have storage units full of trinkets, the wasteful consumption that fed capitalists and hollowed out many a life. There will come a time when repair of homes cannot be done for lack of labor, all laborers attending to their own climate fallout not to mention scarce expensive materials. We're going to build 5 million homes to perpetuate the good life?