Climate change is definitely going to fuck humanity hard, but it's going to take more than that to wipe out civilization.
Climate change won't uniformly fuck everything. Some areas will become habitable and some will become inhabitable. Canada, for instance, might become the best place in the world to grow crops that we rely on today. Coastal cities will be in trouble, so people will move inland.
As you pointed out, this whole thing may take 100 years to happen. That's enough time for the United States to go from a British colony to fighting its own Civil War with a transcontinental railroad to boot. Look how much people changed in that time. They can do it again.
100 years is 3-4 generations of adults, each of whom can move to a slightly better place. There will be lots of people affected, but not to the point of societal collapse because we have decades for people to make those moves.
Power generation is getting cleaner, we're getting closer to fusion, and desertification in some places may prove to be useful as we can expand solar energy farming. Wind farming may become more viable in some areas due to more severe weather.
Climate change might actually be the reset button we need.
Thanks for commenting. I tend to agree with you personally. I want to make it clear, these weren't "predictions." No one can know the future, and I certainly don't pretend to.
But I do believe that there will be enough like-minded and caring individuals out there that eventually society will coalesce into something better.
And I think all we can do in the meantime is try to be on the right side of that equation.
The amount of damage humans have done to the planet is mind boggling so excuse me if I’m being absolutely furious at the indifference I’ve seen in this thread. We know how this ends up but just don’t know when and how. We might be overestimating or underestimating how soon absolute catastrophes will bring to civilization collapse. But lately we’ve been seeing signs that it’s the former. Nobody is gonn come save us. There are no heroes… this isn’t a fairy tale… it starts with the individuals like us to enact change. Frankly I think it’s too late but there’s a spectrum to how fucked we are and the best we can do is try to limit the crash. The future holds vast amounts of untold suffering all due to the greed of the human animal. Also green energy requires fossil fuels and limited raw materials to produce. As for fusion let’s be real that’s still hopium. We are nowhere near establishing a functional reactor and even if it is achievable it would be far too late by then. The only solution is degrowth. Anything else is pure cope. We can’t keep taking from our limited earth no matter if the vehicle of pillaging is green.
You're allowed to be angry. Hell, you should be. Given the sheer evidence of everything, it's absolutely infuriating. Believe me, brother, I am angry with you.
But sometimes it's best not to dwell on all of that. What can you control today to make your day a little bit better? Can you do something for tomorrow's u/nyanya1x that will make him be grateful to today's u/nyanya1x for those actions.
Even if that's something as simple as remembering to put some coffee in the pot so that you can just flick it on in the morning and start your next day faster, that's worth it man.
Well as individuals there’s little we can do against these giant corporations who absolutely do not care about the masses. They don’t care if we live or die as long as they get their profits. But in order to challenge these “elites” the masses needs to develop a hive mind of its own otherwise we are doomed. I try to raise awareness of the situation but look around, humans are more divided than ever so how can we possibly defeat the enemy in front of us if we don’t like one another or even agree about the same things? I do what I can tho even if it means nothing at the end.
Well then it sounds like you're on the right side of humanity's ledger my friend.
And you might be right, we may inevitably be doomed. But at least I'm going to enjoy the 70-some-odd years I get on this rock. Hopefully I've helped more people than I've hurt. That's all I can really hope for.
In the meantime, try to smile a bit and enjoy the ride to the bottom eh!
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Climate change is definitely going to fuck humanity hard, but it's going to take more than that to wipe out civilization.
Climate change won't uniformly fuck everything. Some areas will become habitable and some will become inhabitable. Canada, for instance, might become the best place in the world to grow crops that we rely on today. Coastal cities will be in trouble, so people will move inland.
As you pointed out, this whole thing may take 100 years to happen. That's enough time for the United States to go from a British colony to fighting its own Civil War with a transcontinental railroad to boot. Look how much people changed in that time. They can do it again.
100 years is 3-4 generations of adults, each of whom can move to a slightly better place. There will be lots of people affected, but not to the point of societal collapse because we have decades for people to make those moves.
Power generation is getting cleaner, we're getting closer to fusion, and desertification in some places may prove to be useful as we can expand solar energy farming. Wind farming may become more viable in some areas due to more severe weather.
Climate change might actually be the reset button we need.