Death by Unsustainable LifeStyle
Climate disasters are becoming non-linear
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ July 26, 2022
Reality is slowly dawning with heat waves, storms, and droughts but will be denied by a significant part of our population until all options are gone. We know this now, but the people who manage our geopolitical units refuse to acknowledge it.
Nonlinear is an aspect of complexity that makes things random. Things don't follow a nice linear path allowing anticipation and planning for how things will be next month or next year. Nonlinearity is the problem of a Brazilian Butterfly suddenly causing a blizzard in Kansas.
The climate disaster is being dealt with as linear and can be plotted on a chart. Somewhere in the future, it will be slowly worse, but, of course, unique corporate technology will save us just in time because there will be time to develop and test that technology.
The loss of linearity means that severity and sequence are not predictable. Planning what needs to be done will be blown away by what is happening. Somehow this is not being discussed and anticipated but is the horrible reality emerging around us.
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