• cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No, it’s not. If we started large scale changes now, we would have to endure years of terrible condition with the slight hope that things will improve afterward. Saying “it’s too late” equals to saying we’ll have to endure years of terrible condition while expecting even worse afterward. It’s still a bad posture, no matter how you spin it.

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      1 year ago

      Totally correct. We live now, act now. The future remains not determined, but damn right paths and options are rapidly closing.

      Probably something like an inhabitable band will form over continents; the US southwest and south gulf, for instance.

      All humans won’t die. That’s silly. But very many can, and the rest, degraded.

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        1 year ago

        The US will be lucky if much survives, as will Europe; once the Gulf Stream breaks down both regions will freeze