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There could be 1.2B climate refugees by 2050
- cagenut 4y agoand even if thats an over-estimate, how many hundreds of millions are ok
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- stmfreak 4y agoThere also could be zero.
- scifibestfi 4y agoProbably not 0, but it'll be closer to 0 than 1.2B. We have solutions.
- redmen 4y agoYah we have solutions but they won't be applied by any competent groups of people. Seriously, look at silicon Valley and all of the garbage they produced with all their knowledge. Silicon Valley fucked it all up.
- gilrain 4y agoThere are already many climate refugees.
- barbacoa 4y agoDownvotes don't make this statement any less of a possibility. As CO2 increases plants use less water in respiration, making deserts greener. This is part of the reason the Earth is becoming greener despite human activity. For some reason climate change activists always ignore mitigating forces.
- wh313 4y agoHow much does this greening offset the other effects of climate change, such as increased severe weather, ecosystem loss, and water scarcity, among other things [1] ? [1] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGII_FinalDraft_TechnicalSummary.pdf https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
- barbacoa 4y agoWell technically if you take the vigorousness of life in Earth's biomes as your metric, climate change has been a net positive. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
- wh313 4y agoThis brings up the question, why should that be the metric to measure the effects of climate change with, as compared to the other metrics we go by?
- nequo 4y agoVery important problem. And the effect it will have on xenophobia and support for anti-democratic politics should not be ignored. The 20th century will feel like an age of innocence.
- engineer_22 4y agoPlease make the connection between xenophobia and democracy EDIT: I agree that it looks like things could get very bad. Let's hope for best possible outcomes.
- Teever 4y agoIn some people their xenophobic feelings are innately so strong, or can be stoked to become so strong that those people will go to great lengths to keep outsiders outside, even destroying their own democracy in the process.
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- MattGaiser 4y agoXenophobia can exist anywhere. But it is a notable turn for modern democracies which seemed to have gotten past that.
- wh313 4y agoFrom the paper "Right-wing extremism/radicalism: reconstructing the concept" [1]: > Although nationalism, racism and xenophobia are all discrete concepts, policies of exclusionary nationalism and cultural homogeneity often go hand-in-hand with racism and/or xenophobia. Homogeneity is usually advocated on the grounds that there are irreconcilable natural differences between groups of people and that these groups should not mix – i.e. according to a racist doctrine. > It is the values inherent in liberal and pluralist democracy and the procedures and institutions that sustain these values that particularly stick in the craw of right-wing extremists/radicals. Indeed, Carter defines right-wing extremism by reference to two elements: ‘a rejection of the fundamental values, procedures and institutions of the democratic constitutional state’, and ‘a rejection of the principle of fundamental human equality’. [1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569317.2018.1451227 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569317.2018.1...
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- nigrioid 4y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKiq5EwkzDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKiq5EwkzDg
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- Markoff 4y agothere could be meteorite destroying life on Earth by 2040 just read what these alarmists claimed 10 or 20 years ago to get perspective
- karmakurtisaani 4y agoMaybe share a link while you're at it?