We’ve failed to stop climate change — what next? The world faces having to adapt to more extreme weather

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1. What next? Next is the articles that say “we failed to adapt to climate change”

2. I’d say move away from the coast

3. I don’t think ‘adapt’ means what we’re told it means. Most of the adaptation will simply be the thinning and extinction of herds.

4. Right, we have to adapt to the changing conditions. However, what we do to the Earth still matters and reducing our carbon emissions now can significantly slow the severity of the impact so we have time to adjust.

5. It’s still in our hands to determine the full extent of climate change. There is a big difference in 2 degrees of warming and 3+. Whilst neither is desirable, one is possibly survivable.

6. “It’s not just storms and heatwaves that we need to worry about,” Laybourn said. “It’s that those storms and heatwaves smash up the food supply and lowered harvests increase food prices. They also increase the cost of fertiliser, which further increases prices. That then cascades into higher overall inflation, which itself then influences politics.”

   That’s the part that really keeps me up at night. Food scarcity can lead to a collapse of social order, rather quickly. If you can’t afford to feed your family, or there isn’t enough food to go around, people will fight for what’s available. Hunger leads to panic leads to rioting and looting. Whatever government is in power will become increasingly more draconian to retain control.

7. Not a fan of it myself, but geoengineering, I guess.

8. I’ll tell you what comes next: waves of refugees from climate disaster and wars for resources resulting in even more fascist dictatorships and even less effort to mitigate climate change.

   We’re fuxked.

9. Every degree it rises above pre industrial levels the global GPD will shrink and once it reaches above 3 degrees the GDP is predicted to shrink 30%. Think about that. We’ve already surpassed 1.5 degrees – society is headed for certain collapse

10. It was always about both, and the balance between the two, and both are still needed.

    This means we still need EVs, heatpumps and solar, and we also need to ensure our crops are adapted to high temperatures and our flood risks are managed.

    The good thing is that there are 8.2 billion of us, meaning we can do more than 1 thing at a time.

11. We don’t fail it’s a never ending battle and apathy is not an option.

12. WW3 should cut the population down enough (with a sprinkle of genocide?). Stay safe out there.

13. Too late we are cooked

14. Whats next?

    We start dying.

15. Who says we’ve failed?

16. Civilization collapse and starvation. Yay

17. Especially now that the wealthy have soaked up all the liquidity

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