• Dave@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think many people, even the doomiest doomsayers, reckon it’ll lead to human extinction. But “food and water shortages, mass migration and small conflicts” is not nothing, and could lead to a situation where we think extinction might have been a preferable option.

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        1 year ago

        Forget millions, and try billions.

        Many people that live within the tropic zones could die if they aren’t able to migrate out of those zones. Because of that, we will have a refugee crisis much larger than the world has ever seen, and if previous much smaller refugee crises are any model, countries in the temperate zones will not welcome the refugees with open arms.

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      1 year ago

      this, I would like to be dead before watching the collapse of the “humanity” in a sense, you know, we are not animals. But guess what.

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      Exactly. Humans are innovative and unless the climate takes a turn that’s far more drastic than even the worst predictions, SOME humans will survive. But I think we can expect a massive decline in the human population and if I’m being honest, that’s probably a good thing. We haven’t done good things for this planet and we haven’t done good things for ourselves.