With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed.
There’s no stopping this. There’s too much social entropy pushing and pulling for any sort of meaningful action. We’ll get maybe one more Empire run and perhaps a world war to top off humanity.