Bit heavy for the shower.
Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't.
Submitted 8 months ago by Nay@feddit.nl to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 8 months ago
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Its the nazi version of the shower
Nay@feddit.nl 8 months ago
It just hit me in a sobering sorta way.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
It where I go to cry when it’s not raining. :(
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 8 months ago
baconmonsta@piefed.social 8 months ago
Let the shower wash away your tears...
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I want a refund on this “no tears” baby shampoo. Didn’t do a damn thing for my depression.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No species lasts forever—and the faster their environment changes, the sooner their expiration date.
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Those other species weren’t the authors of the global ecosystem’s demise, even with an understanding of the situation and opportunity to change the course of events
Not really a fair comparison, is what I’m saying.
higgsboson@piefed.social 8 months ago
When faced with a changing environment, aa species has 3 choices: Adapt, Migrate, or Die.
Humans have apparently decided to vault past the first two and just yank that third one.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mean, why do you say that? I don’t know if any other species that lives in a greater variety of environments. There are humans living on every continent, including Antarctica. There are humans living with support in space and under the sea.
We have migrated, to everywhere. And we can adapt, to almost anything.
And to clarify, I don’t think we’ll all survive, but I highly doubt we’d all die.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
No other species are quite like humans though
P00ptart@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Meh, we wouldn’t be the first species to be so successful that we kill ourselves off.
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Depends on what you define as “lasts forever”. We are direct descendants of some kind of a rodent. Yeah, our species has changed “kind of much” since those days, but I wouldn’t worry about that kind of “expiration”. We are some rodents’ grand-grand-grand-…-grandchildren, and I think the rodent would be very much okay with us not looking very squirrellike, if they somehow was to find out they are our ancestor. They’d love us all the same :)
But of course, in our case, it won’t be that evolution changes us into something else. It’s rather, we will just vault 92’ify ourselves.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Some species are contesting that statement very strongly. Take the horseshoecrab, or the tardigrate or even the cockroach. Humans are known for their fast adaptability, so I’d bet my money on us joining that list.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Take the horseshoecrab, or the tardigrate or even the cockroach.
None of those are species—they’re a family, a phylum, and a (partial) order, respectively. While those clades have been relatively stable morphologically, species within each clade still come and go.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
Lol, OK.
Nay@feddit.nl 8 months ago
What do you disagree with, though?
crandlecan@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Humans will perish, as will 90% of life on Earth.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 months ago
Climate change is an ongoing process that takes decades to centuries. That’s very fast as far as evolution and natural climactic shifts are concerned, but on a human scale long term. Given that it’s not stopping within the lifespan of one person, and contributes to virtually every health problem in subtle ways, it’d seem a bit difficult to say if a given person has “survived it” or not, even if they live to an old age.
Cricket@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I’m not sure exactly what you mean regarding health and lifespan, but I think looking forward from 2025, things are quickly going to go off the rails. We’ve already been seeing severe problems resulting from climate change for years now, and I think that it’s going to rapidly get worse within the next 5-10 years. I’m not talking about sea level rise (except in very vulnerable places that are already partially underwater, like Florida), but about intensifying weather disasters, droughts, and shocks to the global food supply. As a result of this, I think we will see more and more unrest as well as authoritarianism used to deal with that unrest. How quickly all this is going to decimate the population is anyone’s guess.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I disagree.
I dont think its particularly likely there will be famines in the next 5 years or so on a scale that can’t be countered by aid.
Sure, economies might start to feel some very serious consequences, shit might start to get very real, I just dont think we’re quite at the point where people start dying.
higgsboson@piefed.social 8 months ago
Going to? Going to? Have you not... gestures vaguely
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’m so glad I don’t have any kids. That failure was a blessing in disguise