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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Could it be natural climate change does not have human caused options?
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1) I'd parse it out on a 'pre-industrial', more technology- void context.
2) The old-world cut its forests down to build & burn until they had a timber crisis.
3) Then they switched to coal, to burn and make brick for construction, since the wood was gone, or came to the New World to cut it down and burn it, or both.
4) The coal mines flooded, which led to a national competition for a water pumps to clear the mines.
5) Which led to quality cylinders and pistons.
6) Which led to the Newcomen engine.
7) Which was improved by Watt, leading to exponential growth in steam power.
8) Which is where carbon dioxide really started taking off.
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9) Without the industrial revolution, we'd never have had mechanized agriculture or artificial fertilizer, and populations would have been constrained by Thomas Malthus calculus.
10) The middle class wouldn't exist as we know it, and some inventions would never have gotten traction, as they need the discretionary spending of a middle class to take hold.
11) No modern medicine.
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12) 'Natural' climate change would move on Milankovich-cycle velocity time-scales, nothing like what we're doing.
13) And nothing as complex, as Earth's 'chemistry' would be 'feral.'