A new paper in nature communications details how ecological systems can collapse faster than expected when multiple drivers and random events are considered. In this video Paul Beckwith does a great job going through the papers’ key points. In particular he highlights how past ecological collapses such as Easter Island, can determine the speed of future system level collapses.
Faster than expected you say?
It is interesting that we are breaking basically every record so far when it comes to past assumptions how fast we will see things go bad. But we are still not acting as if we were interested in changing anything about it. Strange! EDIT: grammar
At this point it feels like we have a noose around our neck and are trying desperately to slow down the fall. It’s insane to me that we are alive at this moment to witness our own destruction/extinction.
