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I think it is important to keep the temperature increase down so that we don't drive as many species to extinction (ex. Coral reefs are already severely damaged
by GhostVII 6y ago
I think it is important to keep the temperature increase down so that we don't drive as many species to extinction (ex. Coral reefs are already severely damaged). But the climate "apocalypse" fears seem overblown. Florida was supposed to be underwater by now, and yet it's doing fine.
Im sure there will be some increase in natural disasters due to climate change, but I don't believe in the idea that climate change will be some extinction level event.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoIt doesn't have to cause extinction to cause huge amounts of suffering for human beings or even collapse civilization as we know it.
- marcusverus 6y agoClimate change could certainly cause large scale suffering, but how could any of the likely scenarios possibly cause civilizational collapse?
- scsilver 6y agoI would assume that civilization doesnt collapse like a building, it collapses like an ecosystem, slowly components of that civ don't have the resources to exists, services go unrendered,people stop living in that area, pressure builds on less affected areas. Costs rise, gentrification pushes low income people into bad parts of town, that compound and get worse.
- Valgrim 6y agoBy now? Where did you see that?
- hactually 6y agoFlorida is already assuring King tide events and sink holes due to climate change https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/21/florida-climate-crisis-sea-level-habitat-loss https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/21/florida-...