I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 months ago by sik0fewl@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at a waterpark. The “ending in shit” kind. The issues are complicated, the reasons diverse, but there are a few culprits who have been making themselves extremely visible.

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Everyone knows life on earth is going to end if we don’t stop emitting carbon

This is not what the science claims at all.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it will just have huge impacts on mankind, the economy, wellbeing, and life itself. No biggie.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 0 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it's just going to suck for humans for a few million years, some endangered species are going to go extinct, but life will definitely continue.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee -1 points 3 months ago

Nope, not like that either. The science shows it’s gonna destroy human habitats along the coastline, if no mitigating steps are taken such as they have been in the netherlands and new orleans (dikes to hold back rising sea levels).

That’s about it for the negative effects.

On the positive side, there’s going to be greater crop yield per acre, and fewer deaths from cold.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

Increasing temperatures will lead to increased human deaths due to high heat, far more than the reduction in cold deaths.

Crop yield per acre is not going to increase. What are you basing this off, the general notion that plants need CO2 for photosynthesis, so more CO2 equals more growth? Because the reality is that crop yield looks likely to decrease, because of ecosystem disruption

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