[GWSG] Looking past the death cult

[Tilley, Al]

The impending move of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to a lower flow should be the lead story and fascination of every news source, given its implications for our collective future as a planet. George Monbiot suggests why it is not. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/catastrophic-climate-event-scientists-atlantic-system-collapse-billionaire-existential-crisis
Monbiot assumes that the decline of the AMOC is simply the end of our story. We need to look past that, as distressing as the view will be. It is not too early to ask what adaptation will mean, and what we can do now to prepare.
Of course we should cease now to burn fossil fuels. We should concentrate what resources we can on drawing down and sequestering carbon. We should prepare politically for intense international collaboration. These are actions which might yet prevent the AMOC slowdown, and which will lay the ground for adaptation if the catastrophe comes upon us.  What else need we do?  What else more deserves our attention?
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