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I think you're right, if you take the extreme events that have happened on this planet - and arguably the ice ages themselves also belong there, human activities haven't yet produced anything of that magnitude.

The question is how many more years do you want to give it until we do. These are huge slow systems we are looking at, at the point there is clear evidence around us that disaster is on the horizon, it is already several decades too late to do anything about it.



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