Bread and Circuses

I've taken the liberty of editing a graphic that compares the impacts of global heating from 1.5°C up to 4.0°C above pre-industrial levels.

The first image shown below [original source in comment that follows] states that heating of up to 2C is what we can expect by the year 2100. As for 3C and 4C, those impacts will not be felt until "Hundreds of years from now."

Which is plainly ridiculous. So, in the second image, I added warnings about the actual observed rate of global heating and the probable increase in temperatures during the next several decades.

I certainly *wish* that 3C and 4C were hundreds of years away, but they're not. In reality, 1.5C will likely be upon us before we know it, and we'll hit 2C by 2040, if not sooner. On our present course, 3C is almost a certainty this century, and 4C or even higher cannot be ruled out.

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Jul 11, 2023 at 1:14pmWeb
Show threadbouriquetJul 11, 2023
@breadandcircuses So if we thought that a COVID pandemic killed millions, just wait until these consequences hit. Global famine isn’t going to be easily fixed with a vaccine. Political and social upheaval will make things worse.
We can’t buy our way out of this with corporate profits and stock options on air conditioning companies. Wake up!
Show threadCourt Cantrell does not complyJul 11, 2023
@breadandcircuses Is there anything effective we can do other than vote for the politicians who have the gumption to enforce strict regulations on the giant corporations responsible for this?
Show threadathinkinganarchistJul 11, 2023
@breadandcircuses At this point, I'm looking for the best regions to flee too. But it doesn't really seem like anywhere would be safe.
Show threadTj HJul 11, 2023
@breadandcircuses what i would love to see, and hoping would get the point across to more people is a dramatic short/movie showing in reality what a +3C or +4C world would look like from the perspective of a regular human living in a town somewhere. Something like disaster hollywood movies but realistic like "this is reality in like 30 years". This may actually force people to face the reality of the situation in a way they're used to seeing from movies, and that connects to them immediately.
Show threadRaku.AnarchyJul 11, 2023
@tj @breadandcircuses
What I fear is that I'm obliviously going about a 'normal', suburban life as the collapse has already started, i.e., insect and bird population collapse, concurrent with the climate crisis and human relation crisis. If ever there were a time to turn on, tune out, and drop out...
Show threadcJul 11, 2023
@tj @breadandcircuses uum
we would all be dead
Show threadElon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇪🇺Jul 12, 2023
@tj @breadandcircuses there's this. It's overly optimistic, but good. https://youtu.be/1XmiLNYyl48
Earth 2100 The Final Century of Civilization ABC Special

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