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"I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South," one expert said.

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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

They (selfishly) believe that allowing the problem to flourish is what will get us to solve it.

They're not wrong. There's just way better, more humane approaches.

So you're mostly right. Because they know they have the wealth to weather the discomfort in comfort. But it is accurate that humans historically are fucking aces at reacting and kinda piss poor at proacting.

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, they are wrong. Because we don't know if there are positive feedback loops that will take us beyond survivable temperatures once we've crossed an invisible line.
Even the ultra-rich won't survive +5C because the entire concept of "wealth" falls apart when society does.

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