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I have been using RCP 8.5 for all of my long-term decision making (where to move and buy a house, how sustainably I plan to live).

Based off the downvotes I receive on here I think I'm too much of a collapsenik for the average HN poster, but one benefit of being neurotic is that by the time people finally start reckoning with the current state of collapse, I have already made peace with it. The downside is that I become miserable to talk to.

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At that level of CO2, your brain is fucked even if you're otherwise ok.

I'm more ambivalent about CO2 than just about anybody, but I'd go to war over that concentration.

I say plan for the worst and hope for the best.

> but I'd go to war over that concentration

I think this is why the US is trying to annex greenland.

Although I'm fairly optimistic about carbon, I think we need pessemists to get any stuff like this done.

And we need a diverse set of baseline estimates — yours and worse, not just mine and better — so some of us survive whatever nonsense the next 75 years brings.

(I'm also a pessimist about many other things besides carbon).

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