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This is what I answered in another comment:

C02 is a bit like the gun in the hand of the child that I mentioned in my previous essay. What's really changing the climate, which is also to say the environment, is all the activities related to industrial capitalism.

Normally, an influx of C02 would be no real problem (it also happens during wildfires, etc). But because we've significantly deforested large areas of the planet and turned others into desolate wastelands, there's not enough plant growth to balance out this excess.

The same goes for many other aspects. For a really in-depth discussion of how the cycle of flooding and drought of the Rhine relates to deforestation and disrupted weather patterns, see my essay, The Garments of the Goddesses. https://rhyd.substack.com/p/the-garments-of-the-goddesses

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