The History of the Climate Crisis: open or inevitable

First a few thoughts on the openness of history in the matter of the climate crisis. History is above all open-ended when it has to do with human action or non-action. Caesura in political history are oriented on events that make a big splash and lay the groundwork for the future, such as the emergence of the German Empire, the two world wars, or the fall of the Berlin Wall. By contrast, the climate history of the past 170 years is based on the gradual change of the material-energetic structure of the atmosphere through the use of fossil-fuel energy sources. This change follows a causality based on natural law.