That’s a bummer. Well, what’re you gonna do… We should build more solar and wind farms, that will surely help. Maybe ban plastic straws in Africa, too?
“… over the next century,” continues the article after the catchy headline.
Not that people dying is a good thing, but I was kind of hoping they’d be people alive right now. If 1/8th of the world treated climate change like it was personally going to kill them, we might still have a chance of turning things around. (As a bonus, can oil giants really keep their execs safe from 1 in 8 highly motivated people?)
A century isn’t that long and 1 billion people is a huge portion of the global populace.
It kills the poor. Noone care about that, not even the poor as they won’t be informed enough to know what’s going on.
Definitely, because poor people don’t watch the news and can’t read.
Half the people in industrial countries barely grasp the seriousness of the situation so what do you expect from a farmer in Africa who thinks witchcraft is real?
This seems really racist dude. Very colonialist to assume this. A lot of people in non-industrialised and industrialist countries believe in a sky daddy and that heaven and hell are real. They may as well believe in witchcraft.
That doesn’t make the african farmer believe in climate change.
Unfortunate. We’re the boiling frog fable all over again.
It doesn’t need to kill them to completely disrupt social order. There’s an estimate out there that there will be up to 1 billion climate refugees by 2050. The Global North already does not handle refugees as well, even though they consistently cause a large amount of the refugee problems.
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Yeah, anyone remember “10 in 2010”? You know, where everyone was panicking because there were going to be 10 billion people on Earth in 2010. The best thing anyone can do for their case is to stick to facts.
It’s not actually junk prediction, though you might call it doom-bait journalism. WHO put climate change related deaths at like 150,000 people annually in the year 2000. Those numbers will obviously go up, which is why they’re backed in a lot of studies, but the real rub on reporting here is that they’re talking about “over the course of a century”. So it’s a completely reasonable estimate, it just ignores a lot of nuance like “some countries are having higher population growth so we’re not going to just lose 1 billion (though these deaths are theoretically preventable)” but also “the vast majority of these deaths will be concentrated in Southeast Asia and poorer countries.”
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Fantastic! I want to die!
And now a bunch of random strangers feel awkward about it. Thanks for that
odds are greater you’ll just have to live and suffer through the heatwaves, droughts, freezes and cyclones instead, not to mention the super fun collapse of society
they seem 1 in 8, not bad
Nature knows how to solve this problem.
This issue is that nature is going to start with the people who contribute the least to the issue.
If only the people contributing the most could actually feel the pressure.
I can easily see white nations gunning-down brown migrants by the millions to keep them out.
And those who contribute the least to this issue are also likely the ones who want it fixed the most.
Nature is already working on it and ramping things up.
By resetting earth. I wonder what species will wander the lands and waters in millions of years…
Probably cockroaches, I’ve seen the film
I hope bird people rise up. It’d be neat.
Jellyfish.
Sentient dolphins and squidkids probably
I’m thinking the Octopuses finally take over if they survive the warming oceans.
Me first.
Get in line.
Is the earth is getting a fever to kill the viruses that are infecting it?
Calling people viruses is probably not the best way to go about it. It’s the way we’re doing economy at a global scale, not inherent to us as a species.
I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we are the cure.
This is ecofascism, booooo
It’s Agent Smith from The Matrix.
The most accurate thing is often not the most palatable.
It is is
Vaccine man from OPM was right. We need to put Saitama on trial
The people responsible don’t care. They will be perfectly fine letting the rest of us die. They’ll only start giving a shit once cheap labor starts getting hard to come by.
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AI learns from existing human work. Without innovation it will learn nothing of value.
Robots cost money. Sweatshop slaves work for food.
Robots don’t sleep. They don’t get sick. They don’t have federally mandates days off. They don’t commit self delete via rooftop if you overwork them. If you can be replaced by something that can do your job at 10% the speed for 1% the total cost, you will be. Such is the way of capitalist automation.
I have never seen automation fully replace the need for human workers. You still need people to maintain the equipment. All automation does is increase the amount of output. And when you start running machines at capacity you find out real quick just how much maintenance they really need.
Robots do get sick, it’s called needing maintenance.
Half of what you say is true. But robots are expensive, in many cases way more expensive than child labours around the world. And while it’s possible to have robots do grunt work, true AI is still far away, like several decades.
The kind of sophisticated AI and robotics that can replace a human is much further away than some people seem to realize. That kind of technology doesn’t even exist in a lab. It will be decades before anything approaching that level even exists, and decades more before it’s an affordable, practical, mass-produced option. Even huge corporations that have the budget to invest won’t have the opportunity for quite a while.
Robots also do exactly what you tell them to.
Mmmm.
You know what’s in short supply right now? People who know how to automate stuff.
We will automate that.
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Wait I can get paid for that? Haha suckers my hourly rate is fucking steep.
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Oh no, the sun is hot! It is normal to have variations in temperature from year to year.
This article is bogus. It doesn’t even mention the power or thoughts and prayers once!
Wishes and spells
Well that’s fine because I have a wizard what installs programs for me
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
I cast level three eroticism
…so far.
I wish I could be an optimist, too.
This rule is actually “an order of magnitude best estimate”, which means it’s more of a range, somewhere between 0.1 to 10 deaths per 1000 tons of carbon burned.
That leaves a lot of room for scenarios even more dire than the one outlined here.
“When climate scientists run their models and then report on them, everybody leans toward being conservative, because no one wants to sound like Doctor Doom,” explains Pierce.
“We’ve done that here too and it still doesn’t look good.”
Translation: 10 billion people will die.
2nd translation: Almost everyone will die.
Or it could end up being less bad than we expect.
less bad than the conservative estimates of their models… you can’t read properly can you…
Said every apologist ever. Look around you man. It’s already pretty bad out there. How much worse does it need to be before you stop downplaying the situation?
“Don’t Look Up” and all that…
When does that ever happen?
I told my friend about all my problems, and he said, “Cheer up! Things could be worse!”
So, I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse.
So what you’re saying is… we are going to enter a dark age… and we could use a Foundation to lessen it’s impact on humanity?
Or two?
Pretty sure I’m gonna be fine.
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My wild ass guess is humanity will eventually die back to, at best, bronze age population levels.
This global economist wrote a whole book arguing exactly that; The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/667b3daf-4c99-47de-82f6-f74eb7cd2ff7
Yeah. We’ll definitely be set ourselves back for a while. Shame because we are on the verge of lots of great technologies.
Will I finally get to meet the sea people?
And with your help we can make sure that that number includes those that need to die.
