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Appreciate the message here. One particular issue I've always felt was when it is reported that some weather event is "caused by climate change", because in reporting it that way it lays the blame on the phenomena (which is actually the Earth's systems managing its health conditions).. I know that it's convenient to say "caused by climate change" but this misses an opportunity to go a level or two deeper on the causation (which I appreciate is very complex). Were the sore feet caused by bad shoes? or was it because of working overtime every day on a hard floor because you need the money to pay your rent?..

Eg: the fires in California are caused by the difference between what people think and how nature works (to reference Gregory Bateson). Or, The flooding of crops is caused by the mechanistic worldview that misunderstands the true complexity of living systems. The heat dome was caused by thermodynamic belligerent city planning. Or, the high winds were caused by urbanization over lands that need to be returned to forest cover. Or, the rate of desertification was caused by AI technology that allowed for expedited efficiency in resources demand and extraction, known generally as the Jeavons paradox at work.

But yes, it's easier to lay causation on a point source and the abstract notion of climate change functions as a point source.

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