It’s not an existential threat to humanity nor is it even a bad thing for everyone. It highly depends where you live. For many countries the climate refugees are probably going to be a bigger problem than climate change itself. It’s a net-negative for the earth as a whole though I believe.
I’m worried that we won’t be able to support the population we have. Lower quality of life I can handle. Famine and starvation is frightening. I hate to say it, but we’ll probably be ok in North America. The rest of the world, fuck.
I wonder what will happen when we have 200-300 million refugees roaming the globe due to climate change…
Bangladesh alone is 170 million.
I’m surprised my comment above was downvoted. If people aren’t worried about food they are missing the most important thing we need.
What do you reckon the time-scale is for things to start kicking off? 10-20 years?
Humans are highly adaptable and the lifeforms we require to survive will. It is those species we do not protect that will experience an apocalypse.
the climate has been changing for billions of years and yet life has somehow persevered through it. it’ll be fine, but your life may get harder.
You may be right that I overstated that. In 2013 there was a study finding it had not changed this rapidly in 65 million years, though since then there have been studies suggesting there may have been incidents of very rapid change in the distant past. Here are some relevant links I found:
Studies of ice cores suggest climate change today is more rapid than in the past 800,000 years
The same ice core data, with sources
Climate change occurring ten times faster than at any time in past 65 million years
Today’s Climate Change Proves Much Faster Than Changes in Past 65 Million Years
Abrupt climate changes in Earth history
Rates of ancient climate change may be underestimated
Rapid climate change: lessons from the recent geological past
Life but not necessarily human life.
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We’re projected to reach temperatures not seen in more than an estimated 20 million years due to our actions within a couple centuries. Harder may end up being a massive understatement.
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