Hearts and Minds: An Ambivalent Review of "Project Hail Mary"
The article discusses the alarming state of climate change and its impacts on various ecosystems and human health. It highlights the acceleration of global heating, the decline of freshwater fish populations, and the risks posed to food security in Africa. Additionally, it notes the failure of global efforts to mitigate climate change and the critical tipping points that have been crossed in coral ecosystems.
- ▪Freshwater fish populations have declined by 81% since 1970.
- ▪Global greenhouse gas emissions broke records in 2024, marking the largest one-year increase since measurements began.
- ▪A third of Africa is now at risk from cassava brown streak disease due to climate change.
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April ’26 • New ridge-regression analysis validates the worst-case scenario for AMOC collapse. And once again, even the current worst-case may be too optimistic because it doesn’t factor in the melting of the Greenland ice cap. March ’26 • Forget 3-4°C (even though that’s where we’re heading); turns out a measly 2°C increase is likely to be way worse than originally thought. Yet another example of the unrealistic optimism of worst-case scenarios. • Seasonal upwelling along the Gulf of Panama has failed. • Freshwater fish populations have declined by 81% since 1970. PopSci coverage here. • We’ve just passed through the hottest 11-years on record.
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