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1. goatlo+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-09-03 21:26:55
How do you know all that will happen in your second paragraph? Is there a model making such a prediction for society in the 2-3° scenario? If skeptics of such societal projections are denialists, then are you a doomer?

There's another possibility. Society will adapt and things won't be nightmarish, because 2-3° warming isn't extreme enough to break down society, when people will have decades to adapt.

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2. runarb+B6[view] [source] 2023-09-03 22:24:54
>>goatlo+(OP)
> How do you know all that will happen in your second paragraph?

We have barely reached 1.5° C and people are already dying by the thousands, people are already fleeing by thousands more—and people are already not accepted as refugees. There are entire areas which are become more and more inhospitably which are experiencing disproportionately more famines, coups, and even wars (namely the Sahel region in Africa).

Yes I am a climate doomer, but I believe doomerism is the reasonable reaction to our climate reality.

3. badten+Jf[view] [source] 2023-09-03 23:48:32
>>goatlo+(OP)
2-3 C will probably break society. I have heard opinions about Earth's carrying capacity being 1B people at 4C, imagine that possibility.

At 2 C a cascade of tipping points might start:

https://climatetippingpoints.info/2022/09/09/climate-tipping...

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