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The extreme politicisation of this issue has caused this kind of thinking, which is simply not true. Even the IPCC, the biggest authority on climate change say
by zpeti 5y ago
The extreme politicisation of this issue has caused this kind of thinking, which is simply not true.
Even the IPCC, the biggest authority on climate change says that temperatures might increase 2C in the next 50 years, reducing the GROWTH in GDP in the world by 6% (NOT actual GDP). This might have some bad consequences, but it's a far cry from the doomsday scenario of humanity dying within 12 years that people like AOC have talked about.
(btw, global temperatures rose about 2C in the last 50 years. We survived. In fact humanity is doing fairly well on most metrics)
- jmcgough 5y agoWe're talking about more frequent severe weather conditions, heat waves (like the historic one occurring in the PNW), millions displaced from their homes, and a mass extinction event. Sometimes GDP is the wrong metric to optimize for.
- dathos 5y ago>In fact humanity is doing fairly well on most metrics Sure, but almost every other species on this planet with is is not doing that great. And even though we think we're so smart, a collapse in population of any species might have more impact on us than we now think.
- berkeleynerd 5y agoThe current report is quite a bit worse than this sanguine take. The pending report appears to be even more worrisome. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/23/leaked-un-report-warns-accelerating-climate-devastation https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/23/leaked-un-report-wa...
- ALittleLight 5y agoA quote from that article: “Life on Earth can recover from a drastic climate shift by evolving into new species and creating new ecosystems,” it says. “Humans cannot.” Seems odd. Humans live or can live anywhere on Earth, but we're uniquely incapable of handling new ecosystems? I'd like to see the new report.
- timeon 5y agoWell one of causes of war in Syria (that destabilized whole region and part of EU and accelerated Brexit etc. etc.) was drought and crop failure. And people are not only ones that are migrating north. We are still managing, but relativizing things that humanity as whole is doing well seem like willful ignorance.