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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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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

Source? (The past tense make me think you're quoting a paper)

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

There isn't one definitive paper I can give. They're are of course also papers claiming the opposite.

I've seen multiple articles about this. Less yield from staple crops, productivity loss with heatwaves, storm damage. There are a bunch of papers too, usually about a specific region. But roughly above 2°C, the hurt really begins with the cost to the economy exceeding almost every country's growth. Exact numbers differ per article.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 months ago

Too bad, I'll have to hunt around myself. Simulation is always a bit vulnerable to assumptions when human behavior is involved, but it's definitely worth trying to model things.

If that's true, the political landscape is going to become starkly different. We expect growth right now; it's used as the yardstick of economic success. Obviously past civilisations didn't, and we could go back, even peacefully for all I know, but it would be uncharted territory post-industrialisation.

I kind of suspect climate adaptation produces more CO2 than other forms of activity, because it would be construction heavy. I wonder if that's factored it. Actually, I wonder what the adaptation assumptions are in general.

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