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Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't.

Yeah, maybe you should look a little harder?

Wait until crops start dying en masse due to higher temperatures, too many bad insects, too few good insects, no more water.

Wait until you get your 50 degree celcius Summers, which apparently already started in select countries this year.

Wait until forest fires become so big that they simply can’t be controlled anymore and start burning down entire cities

Wait until drinkable water runs out due to us emptying all aquefiers, wells, etc.

Wait until water, food, etc scarcity due to climate change starts the bigger wars over the scraps that are left

You won’t have to wait long, we’re working hard on making these features a reality soon.

I’m not sure what will kill the most people, but I pity those that survive

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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m looking for more factual peer reviewed research.

I haven’t seen anything to suggest that billions will die. That seems very far fetched to me.

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- SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It’s important to remember that science is inherently conservative and doubly so for climate change Erring on the Side of Least Drama.
  
  If you read any of the IPCC reports you’ll note they are very careful to not really provide any death estimates or anything. However, [one can attempt to extrapolate a risk space from those descriptions] (link.springer.com/article/…/s10584-022-03430-y) from that we can analyze key takeaways from the WG2 report ^1^
  
  The report found that climate impacts are at the high end of previous estimates
  
  3.3 billion people about 40% of the world population, now fall into the most serious category of “highly vulnerable” ___ 1 billion people face flooding.
  
  Based on the existential risk model, that’s 3.3 billion currently facing some level of existential risks. If the impacts remain “at the high end of previous estimates”, which they very likely will, then that’s >3.3 Billion potential deaths.
  
  ^1: using Wikipedia summary because the report is 3675 pages long and ain’t nobody got time for that^
  
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  - phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    To expand.on this in a less than scientific way; one can only imagine what will happen when 1-3 billion people face existential threats. Think that a few tens of thousands of refugees is a problem?.wait until you have billions of them. What are you going to do, stop them at your borders?
    
    Food and water scarcity will invite even more wars.
    
    There is lots of fun ahead of us
    
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- basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Let’s try a new game, the burden of proof is on you, as your the one saying we are all somehow being dramatic. So, go fetch us some credited peer reveiwed papers from the past 5 years that say we are being dramatic…
  
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- Muehe@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Kemp et al. 2022 - Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios
  
  TL;DR: Societal collapse seems possible, more research is needed.
  
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