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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Global warming is funny in that there is a threshold at which runaway reaction evaporates all water on the planet and changes it into inhabitable wasteland akin to other sad space rocks.

I don’t know what are the chances for that but I feel if it is anything above 0.1% then it is too fukin big of a chance.

I don’t want to risk that the scientists completely missed the mark in some computer simulation or missed some vital, crucial info and this is the actual scenario, those things are awfully hard to model and predict. Maybe the rate of change is so meaningful that it kicks in some bad stuff that would not happen if the rate of change was hundred thousands years. Who knows at this point. Climatologists are fumbling around in confusion

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That won't happen, CO2 and warming has been much, MUCH higher than it is now or probably will ever be.

What will happen is that loads of animals will die because they won't be able to adapt quick enough. Thought that we had many extinctions now? Try a hundred times more.

What will happen is mass crop failures due to extreme weather, and water shortages. Humans being the assholes that the are will not focus on an actual solution, they'll just start wars over the scarce resources to make it even worse.

Humanity actually might go extinct if we let it ge tbad enough.

There are still many people out there claiming it's all fake. Can we please just make them extinct?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

It begins with wiping out the brainwashed. Theoretically, this should allow democracy to correct the problems, but i suspect the owners will just stop pretending they operate within the bounds of democracy at that point and go all out authoritarian to prevent themselves from being dethroned. Then we wipe them out.