David 2d ago

I have these two sentences stuck in my head these days:

A French minister: we need to prepare ourselves for a future when temperatures are 4°C higher.

A climate scientist: with a rise of 4°C above pre-industrial age, up to 90% of the world's population may die.

(edit: muting the post, it's going way beyond its intended audience, I'd like to be able to see notifications about other things. thanks you all for sharing)

#ClimateCrisis #Climate #ClimateEmergency

Show threadCubeRootOfTrue2d ago
@David That's assuming 90% of the population sit idly by while the coastline moves inland. That won't happen
Show threadBeldarak2d ago

@CubeRootOfTrue @David

There is always the possibility to move underground too. Life will always find a path (not saying this is a path I want though :S)

Show threadeswillwalker2d ago
@Beldarak @CubeRootOfTrue @David Do you know that plants, on which our entire terrestrial ecosystem (including all agricultural productivity), depend on sunlight and so cannot live underground?
Show threadBeldarak2d ago

@ELS @CubeRootOfTrue @David

I was more thinking about underground habitats so humans aren't constantly in the heat.

You'd still be growing plants on the surface and I guess you could also go there.

But your house, office buildings etc... would be at -1 / -2 / -3 floor levels to be easier to cool down.

You could also farm mushrooms underground rather than vegetables, if the surface truly became unwalkable, but that's like absolute post-apocalypse scenario, we won't be there to live it.

Show threadeswillwalker
@Beldarak @CubeRootOfTrue @David Mehta What makes you think that edible plants will survive conditions that humans won’t. Talk to agricultural researchers from Pakistan to get some sense of the current problems, which are only getting worse.
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