Many of Earth’s “vital signs” have hit record extremes, indicating that “the future of humanity hangs in the balance”, a group of the world’s most senior climate experts have said.
More and more scientists are now looking into the possibility of societal collapse, says the report, which assessed 35 vital signs in 2023 and found that 25 were worse than ever recorded, including carbon dioxide levels and human population. This indicates a “critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis”, it says.
The temperature of Earth’s surface and oceans hit an all-time high, driven by record burning of fossil fuels, the report found. Human population is increasing at a rate of approximately 200,000 people a day and the number of cattle and sheep by 170,000 a day, all adding to record greenhouse gas emissions.
“humanity’s future in balance” and “humanity’s future hangs in the balance” don’t mean the same thing
Yeah, I know. What the fuck am I supposed to do?
Even if it all turns to shit, there will likely be some people alive in the apocalyptic hellscape, and eventually we’re going to need to build communities that are able to grow their own food, take care of each other - completely doing away with capitalistic society. We’ll also need people to hunt down whatever billionaire psychopaths survive in their bunkers.
So might as well start now.
I hate these defeatist articles. This is the shit the rich want you to believe. They want you to shut the fuck up and keep buying trash from them.
I’m giving them less of my money. Fuck the rich.
I don’t care at this point. Don’t have kids or if you have them already have go bags and plans. We’re fucked
Where are you going with go bags? Everyone else is going there too.
We’re not THAT fucked as to where we need go bags.
Everyone should have something like that. In any emergency you can grab it and leave the house and be prepared.
There’s a difference between an emergency and apocalyptic societal collapse.
What do you put in your bag?
Scientists to World Leaders:
“How many times we got to teach you this lesson old man?”
Hmm, sounds like Big Science is trying to sell more Earth.
CO2 increase causes an increase in crop yield.
CO2 also lowers nutrient density despite increasing total size and weight of crops, meaning you have fewer nutrients per calorie and per pound. Even if you could spin this into a positive, all crops have the same vulnerabilities to heat stress, drought, and unpredictable seasons, all of which are increased by excess CO2.
Even with crispr changing the timeline to create new crops that might handle the new climate every year to be incredibly short, theres not enough time to produce and distribute those new versions before the climate has changed enough to require yet newer versions of said crops.
But good news, bugs and algae will be plentiful. hope you like algae bars with insect protein bars as a snack.
You know what doesn’t increase crop yield? Heat stress.
You know what else doesn’t increase crop yield? Droughts along with that heat stress.
The garden I put out didn’t do anything this year because it was just so hot and dry for so long.
Not without water
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