OriginalGreasyDave

OriginalGreasyDave t1_j1qmy2r wrote

A back of the envelope, fact-based prediction if mankind doesn't get its shit together.

Global CO2 levels currently stand at roughly, 400 PPM (parts per million). That's an increase of 100PPM over the last 50 years.

During the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum the CO2 concentration was over 1000PPM. At this time, due to the heat, the Earth had tropical oceans at the poles.

If we don't slow down the release of CO2 and the rate of release DOESN'T increase....which it probably will given China and India's planned energy production capacity increases, then in 300 years were looking at a rise of 600PPM - which brings us dangerously close to the CTM.

Which is a world with tropical oceans at the Poles and inhuman temperatures around the Equator.

Bare in mind that the CTM was a (relatively) gradual development and flora and fauna had thousands (if not millions) of years to evolve and adapt to the gradual increase in global temperatures.

Such a temperature change over 300 years would kill most local ecological biomes. It would be a mass extinction event.

So a much warmer earth. With considerably fewer species. If there is space for humans, then there won't be much space. Food will be hard to grow once all the natural pollinators have died off.

Of course, it doesn't have to be this way....and we could stop this future in its tracks if we all forced our politicians to pull their heads out of their arses. So their is hope -but that depends on everyone pushing for change.

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OriginalGreasyDave t1_j1qjesh wrote

Throw into the mix the great insect die off - due to the current over use of pesticides and predicted temperature rises that will be increasing too fast for ecological biomes to adapt - I'm thinking 300 years is over-optimistic.

When the pollinators are gone, we are gone. There's no happy end to this story that I can see.

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OriginalGreasyDave t1_j1qdhyq wrote

You didn't FU. BF's family FUed by not making you feel welcome.

This was the first time you were at the family and they treated you like this?

Ignore the negative comments in this thread.

The basics of hospitality are that if a stranger comes into your home you offer them food. You make sure they aren't thirsty or hungry. You don't set out to make them uncomfortable by asking leading political questions just to get a raise or a reaction.

Why didn't the father offer you something to eat? Why didn't your BF check if you needed anything. You are a guest. If you're the first time there, it's not up to you to start making demands. It's up to them to offer.

IF this family don't know that then you don't want to spend more time with them. Make this clear to your BF and if he can't see it then you're better off without him.

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