David Jun 15

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 threadCubeRootOfTrueJun 15
@David That's assuming 90% of the population sit idly by while the coastline moves inland. That won't happen
Show threadBeldarakJun 15

@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 threadeswillwalkerJun 15
@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 threadLevkaJun 15

@ELS @Beldarak @CubeRootOfTrue @David

You've clearly never grown cannabis under lights.

Show threadeswillwalkerJun 15
@LevZadov @Beldarak @CubeRootOfTrue @David LOL!You are welcome to live by eating cannabis. Best of luck growing enough to live on.
Show threadLevkaJun 15

@ELS @Beldarak @CubeRootOfTrue @David

Most plants can be grown under artificial lighting. I only cited cannabis because it's something I know a little bit about. I'm sorry it went over your head. That was not my intent.

Show threadeswillwalkerJun 15
@LevZadov @Beldarak @CubeRootOfTrue @David I’ve probably grown more kinds of plants than you can imagine. In greenhouses, in fields, in the lab under lights, with and without insect herbivores, with and without fungal pathogens and with and without beneficial microbes. I don’t think it’s possible to support the current human population by growing plants underground. I’m afraid that most people have no idea how difficult the coming years will be.
Show threadLevkaJun 15

@ELS @Beldarak @CubeRootOfTrue @David

I never suggested that it’s possible to support the *entire* current human population by growing plants underground. Don't put words in my mouth. It's rude. It's dishonest. It's very bad form.

Show threadDavid Jun 16
@LevZadov If you want to pick a fight, please do it elsewhere than in the replies of a post I started, thank you.
Show threadLevka

@David

I didn't "pick a fight", I defended myself. If you don't like hearing people defending themselves, I'm not the only one. We're *all* easy to block.

Are you implying that whoever started a thread *owns* it? Is that a rule in the TOS or is it your opinion? I'm not trying to stat a fight with you. I'm genuinely curious. As an avid, though amateur, anthropologist I find self-government in subcultures to be absolutely fascinating. I haven't got this place figured out yet. I'm still sorting the mods' culture from the users'. There's a thesis in this. I'm too old to chase sheepskin, but a few of the younger scholars here should go for it. Research-wise, this place is a data point gold mine.

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