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30% is not much for us, but for countries where agriculture is 60% of GDP amore capricious weather might devestate the economy. For those people climate change
by bjoli 5y ago
30% is not much for us, but for countries where agriculture is 60% of GDP amore capricious weather might devestate the economy. For those people climate change is a threat multiplier. Everything gets worse and more insecure in those regions.
Big climate in short times has historically been very bad for the ecosystem in the short term. Something like the Triassic-jurassic climate shift (due to, presumably, volcanic activity) led to one of the larger extinction events in the history of the planet, killing something like 75% of all species. I am notnsaying that is where we are heading, but even something remotely close to that will most certainly be devestating for society as we know it.
If there is something that will make humanity better it is overcoming this. Not hoping that whoever makes it through will be a part of a better species.
- bjoli 5y agoto continue on this: the late triassic had a temperature about 3°c above modern temperatures. The rise into the jurassic period is believed to be somewhere between 3-7°C.