Wharfie,For the people in Paradise, it was the fire. For the people in the SW, it might be Lake Mead running out of water. For Europe, it might be the current drought. For some of the people on the southern border, it was hurricanes and floods. Arab Spring was brought on by drought, grain export freezes in some exporting countries because of crop failures, and high food prices. That's the thing. You can't prove that any of these disasters wouldn't have happened had CO2 levels remained at pre-industrial era levels.
All you can do is wave your hands and claim that some of them wouldn't have happened, or that some of them would have been less severe, but by what extent?
Let's say the severity of all of those would have been 10% less had we lived ascetically and given up all of our conveniences like personal cars, or jet travel, or air conditioning, or cinnamon dulce suck-your-dick-sideways lattes from Starbucks.
How much would that have impacted overall economic growth? Probably a LOT more than just 10% cumulatively.
That's why I keep saying it's better to adapt to a changing climate than to pretend we can prevent it.
(Of course, technology like better renewable energy and batteries also helps, but we'll get there. No need for Gavin Newsom to ban gas engines by 2035.)
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