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With global warming, the problem is that if you wait for the 6° warming by 2100 predictions to come true, billions are already dead.
by adrianN 5y ago
With global warming, the problem is that if you wait for the 6° warming by 2100 predictions to come true, billions are already dead.
- lovecg 5y agoLet’s not be hyperbolic. Without even getting into the futility of predicting something as complex as future mortality rates, the worst case projections go into tens of millions additional deaths due to climate change over the century (if that sounds like a lot, global deaths per _year_ are on the order of 50 million, so this is a few percent increase). https://impactlab.org/research/valuing-the-global-mortality-consequences-of-climate-change-accounting-for-adaptation-costs-and-benefits/ https://impactlab.org/research/valuing-the-global-mortality-... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24487-w https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24487-w
- adrianN 5y agoI expect many wars caused by famine and mass migrations. India and Pakistan will fight over water and they both have nuclear weapons.