A tangled knot of causality? What comes of it when one juggles too many false metaphors and draws quick conclusions? The market-liberal answer to looming economic damages: more environmentally harmful growth in order to be able to pay for the damages.
‘Global warming’ is only a phenomenon of the steady energetic charging of the Earth’s atmosphere. The resulting ‘energy surplus’ circulates in air, water, soil, buildings, etc., and leads, among other things, to more extreme weather events and to more intense severe weather. This also entails more destruction of infrastructure, for example. But what is decisive for the further course of the climate crisis and our survival are probably the less visible changes in the diverse ecological systems. Here, not only temperatures are changing, but also the chemical composition, the states of matter, and biodiversity. As a result, natural CO2 and water stores are lost, traditional agricultural land use becomes less productive or even impossible, and various species, from microorganisms to humans, lose their habitats.
