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Right, but it’s not completely linear either. There are tipping points, such as a collapse of the arctic ice sheets, savannaization of the Amazon, arctic methane release, which could kick off their own positive feedback loops that cannot be stopped by humans.

Certainly we can do things after that point, but we’ll see much more diminishing returns.



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