3 to 6 BILLION people “could be trapped outside of that zone, facing extreme heat, food scarcity and higher death rates”. I don’t even know if there’s words appropriate enough to describe how awful this is. Holy shit. The polluters at the top and the US govt pushing the military’s budget higher and higher (bumping their emissions higher and higher) will be remembered as the worst killers in history.
Nah it’ll be forgotten
Sadly the much more likely and unfortunate truth…
no information in the article as to when this will occur. this decade? this century? some indeterminate future date, maybe?
seems like sabre rattling or clickbait
By late this century, according to a study published last month in the journal Nature Sustainability, 3 to 6 billion people, or between a third and a half of humanity, could be trapped outside of that zone [that best supports life]
The said study is linked and says “by 2080-2100” in its abstract
ah thanks
no problemo ^^
Well, that’s fucking grim.
It definitely is. Especially since there still doesn’t seem to be any sort of coordinated/meaningful action to prevent this.
No amount of me biking, recycling, and voting with my dollars is going to stop the impending climate disaster. I still do it but it’s really up to the nation-states and companies to stop burning the world to cinders.
Oh I completely agree there. We do our best to recycle etc but nations and the largest companies dwarf anything we as individuals can do.
I’ve always hated the fact they try and lay the climate degradation at our feet like throwing way 6 beer cans is what is causing the problem and not EVERYTHING they do to continue producing despite the damage. It’s exhausting being told we are the ones to save it when Shell/Exxon/BP can’t stop dumping oil in the ocean and the best response they can manage is “Oopsie!”. That South Park bit about “we’re sorry.” was oddly prescient on how others would model their PR emergency response.
