CellBioGuy comments on Sleepwalk bias, self-defeating predictions and existential risk - Less Wrong Discussion
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It's ongoing with no sign of stopping. See coral reefs, the slowing of the North Atlantic circulation, the fact that the whole southern half of the American Great Plains will dry up and blow away starting in a few decades when the fossil aquifers (the pumping of which is the only thing keeping them from turning to desert at modern temperatures) dry up, etc.
Let me repeat: disaster did happen?