Cascades
- Wallace-Wells attempts to make vegan counter-arguments:
- His first statement is just an opinion: "I’m not about to personally slaughter a cow to eat a hamburger, but I’m also not about to go vegan."
- "I don't see anything complicated about drawing a moral boundary between us and other animals." What is it about "us" that justifies our actions towards animals? (Name the trait)
- "I find it offensive to women and people of colour that there is extending of human-rights-like to animals just a generation or two after we finally broke the white-male monopoly on legal personhood." How many generations does it take to remove the "stolen valour" aspect of your fictitious offence?
- Mentions Roman Empire too many times.
- Has a kid while writing the book - reasoning being delusion and wilful ignorance.
Heat Death
- Wet-bulb temperature limit for humans is 35 degrees.
Hunger
- Every degree of warming, staple cereal crop yields decline by 10%.
- Globally, grain accounts for 40% of human diet, adding soybeans and corn that's 67%.