L Simons
https://x.com/LeonSimons8/status/1780662090715328936I still often blow my mind at seeing the scale of the human enterprise.
-Humanity uses ~0.6 ZJ (600,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules) of energy per year.
-That's equal to ~30% of the ~2 ZJ in annual photosynthesis of the entire biosphere!
-The biosphere retains about 19 ZJ of biochemical energy.
-The greenhouse gases we have added to the atmosphere caused our planet to accumulate ~90 ZJ of heat in the past 4 years alone!
We have created the anthroposphere. A new part of the planetary system with an insatiable hunger for energy.
And we are about to be faced with more energy than we can stomach.
Be it as unbearable heat, as super storms, or as melted ice flooding our cities through rising seas