not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 9 days ago2024 was the warmest year on recordlemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1113arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1112arrow-down1image2024 was the warmest year on recordlemmy.blahaj.zonenot_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNoodle07@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 days agoAnd nothing will change until the damage piles up
minus-squaresp3ctr4llinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-29 days agoThats wildly optimistic. By the time the damage piles up, there will not be enough sociopolitical cohesion or spare resources to invest in meaningful mitigation. We are in a global civilizational death spiral, a mutually reinforcing polycrisis, a complex systems collapse. Some places and countries will fare relatively better than others, but they’re all looking at massive declines in absolute terms. I’d say we’d be lucky to hit 2100 with a total world human population above 3 billion. Here’s the most recent calibration of the World 3 model, from ‘The Limits to Growth’ in the 1960s:
And nothing will change until the damage piles up
Thats wildly optimistic.
By the time the damage piles up, there will not be enough sociopolitical cohesion or spare resources to invest in meaningful mitigation.
We are in a global civilizational death spiral, a mutually reinforcing polycrisis, a complex systems collapse.
Some places and countries will fare relatively better than others, but they’re all looking at massive declines in absolute terms.
I’d say we’d be lucky to hit 2100 with a total world human population above 3 billion.
Here’s the most recent calibration of the World 3 model, from ‘The Limits to Growth’ in the 1960s: