jirskyr
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We have a good idea what our situation "now" is going to produce because we can see it unfolding as we study it. For example when I was a kid we knew about the Greenhouse Effect but we didn't have the data on climate change like we do now. Also in the last 40 years the computing power for climatological science is astronomically higher.Mate I appreciate your well thought out post, think of this for a while when the asteroid hit the earth and wiped out the dinosaurs imagine the global warming that would have happened, the fire at first and then the impact winter that occurred, when that passed some scientists believe it triggered centuries of scorching temps, now if this did happen all those years ago and the earth recovered how do we know what our situation now is actually going to produce in another century that doesn't mean that we shouldn't do something about it that would be ignorance
The dinosaur asteroid example you provide is only really relevant in the absence of humans, i.e. if left alone yes the planetary systems do appear to eventually bring most conditions to some sort of average stability. We obviously aren't leaving the planet alone, our footprint is getting bigger and bigger all the time.