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If There Was A Button That Made Everyone Amish (lemmy.world)

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

We are well into the "point of no return" part of the the global warming curve. From here on out things will get more and more unpredictable weather wise with previously tame regions experiencing long droughts or flash floods. Large parts of housing all over the world will become completely insufficient in maintaining livable conditions. Our current agricultural system will stop functioning. Even if humans completely disappeared the existing pollution and atmospheric gases would have massive long term effects on everything else that lives on the planet. We are already experiencing the start of this trend, but its only going to get worse from now on.

These are self-sustaining shifts in the climate system that would lock-in devastating changes, like sea-level rise, even if all emissions ended.

Basically we broke the balance and we wont be able to fix it.

For a relative comparison on how bad our warming curve is compared to those of the planets history, this recent video is a good starting point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bMJekCiBw

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's depressing as fuck.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 4 days ago

Yes but its still our duty to not let it get even worse. If there is large switch to renewables and lower emission industrial processes, then humans will probably somehow continue to exist in a semi normal way. If we dont lower our emissions at all in the next few decades however, then large parts of the planet are predicted to just completely stop supporting human life after like 2100.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

I try to keep a small glimmer of hope that we come to our sense and make dramatic changes over the next 20 years, but I doubt it.

If we were to invest our resources heavily into reversing these trends I think it's possible, but that would have to be humanity's collective goal. We can't even agree to stop murdering each other though so yeah it's bad