Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One

[00:00.01] It is worse, much worse than you think (than you think)
[00:03.93] The slowness of global warming is a fairy tale (it's a fairy tale)
[00:08.64] Perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all (ain't happening at all)
[00:14.57] And it comes to us bundled with several others (several others)
[00:18.79] In an anthology of comforting delusions
[00:31.08] That all this warming is an Arctic saga unfolding remotely
[00:40.51] That it is strictly a matter of sea level and coastline
[00:49.40] Not an enveloping crisis sparing no place and leaving no life, undeformed
[01:00.07] That it is a crisis of the "natural" world
[01:03.85] Not the human one
[01:05.40] None of this is true
[01:08.69] None of this is true
[01:12.04] None of this is true
[01:15.90] That those two are distinct (natural and human)
[01:20.56] That we live today somehow outside or beyond
[01:25.99] Or at least defended against nature
[01:29.58] Not inescapably within and literally overwhelmed by it
[01:38.69] Not inescapably within and literally overwhelmed by it
[01:45.24] None of this is true (none of this is true)
[01:48.31] None of this is true (none of this is true)
[01:51.81] None of this is true (none of this is true)
[01:55.59] That wealth can be a shield against the ravages
[02:02.41] That the burning of fossil fuel is the price of continued economic growth
[02:09.82] That growth and the technology it produces
[02:17.10] Will inevitably engineer a way out of disaster
[02:23.33] A way out of disaster
[02:42.56] That there is any analogue
[02:45.61] To the scale and the scope
[02:48.23] Of this threat in the long span of human history
[02:56.22] That might give us confidence in staring it down
[03:04.96] None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true)
[03:08.63] None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true)
[03:12.16] None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true)
[03:17.41] None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true)
[03:20.99] None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true)
[03:24.76] None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true)
[03:28.39] None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true)
[03:31.29] None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true)
[03:35.55] None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true)
[03:37.75] None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true)
[03:42.45] None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true)
[03:46.24] None of this is true (none of this is true)
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