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Environment & Energy

NickB79

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3. It's gonna come down like a Jenga tower

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 31, 2018, 05:02 PM

Aug 2018

At first you can remove blocks and stack them higher with no obvious consequences. Then it starts to wobble a little bit, but still gives no signs of imminent failure.

Then you move one last block, and a tower you spent 15 minutes working on comes down in a second.

There is no "transition period" when things collapse.

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'Major transformation' ahead for Earth's ecosystems: study [View all] Judi Lynn Aug 2018 OP

Yikes... calimary Aug 2018 #1

they keep saying "in the next 100 years or so" lapfog_1 Aug 2018 #2

It's gonna come down like a Jenga tower NickB79 Aug 2018 #3

think titration point lapfog_1 Aug 2018 #4