From: Paul Cockshott (wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed May 21 2008 - 08:45:16 EDT
Well there would obviously not be an industrial civilisation in northern Europe or the USA north of the carolinas, but that leaves a lot of the world. Malaya, much of India, probably large areas of Africa would do fine. But I mentioned the Eocene as that was a previous period of high C02 circa 50M years ago, during which northern Europe was tropical or semi-tropical and there were no permanent icecaps on either pole. A such it represents a worst case scenario for CO2 -- short that is of a truely massive clarthate release. Whilst this too represents a huge change in climate, and might be associated with large scale desertification in Amazonia, it would be far from being uninhabitable. Paul Cockshott Dept of Computing Science University of Glasgow +44 141 330 1629 www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/ -----Original Message----- From: ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu on behalf of GERALD LEVY Sent: Wed 5/21/2008 1:10 PM To: Outline on Political Economy mailing list Subject: RE: [OPE] A brief socialist history of the automobile | Links > At worst we are talking about a shift to Eocene conditions. Human life and civilization could still continue, but at considerable cost. Hi Paul C : What kind of "civilization" could continue with catastrophic climatic change such as a new Ice Age? In solidarity, Jerry _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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