Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts
Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts
Record emissions, temperatures and population mean more scientists are looking into possibility of societal collapse, report says
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.
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.
"humanity’s future in balance" and "humanity’s future hangs in the balance" don't mean the same thing
Yea that title is ass.
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.
"Balance" HA! You're late to picture. It's easily too late 2030 Has been my call for over a decade now. Everyone says I'm crazy. I know you're ignorant. You think this is an accident. This is conducted intentionally by folks and you can't see what is obvious because they won't STFU about everything else. You're a sucker for believing fucking anything. Don't believe me. Figure it out for yourself. Stop believing anything. It's fucking obvious when you discard the flash of the neon sign.
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CO2 increase causes an increase in crop yield.
You know what doesn't increase crop yield? Heat stress.
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 when we first started seeing growing populations and development of agriculture? When the climate started an exceptionally long stable period. Guess what's going put of the window now? Planting for draught because that's the "new normal" won't get you far if the next year happens to be the wettest on record. Let alone that stronger storms than ever seen before aren't exactly great for harvests either. And that's just agriculture. Climate related disasters can wipe out key infrastructure, with unexpected consequences down the line (e.g. no car production because of a certain specific part of almost all cars comes from that one specific place). And then there's the refugee problem on top of all that.