Aug 1, 2026, 12:12 PM@nemeciii @JulianOliver @crumbletiltskin no, it's not at all likely that most of humanity will die.
Current best human mortality numbers are around 100M people, mostly in the global majority.
https://epic.uchicago.edu/news/new-global-mortality-study-estimates-climate-damages/
That is a miserable outcome, and we can do much better.
@evan @JulianOliver @crumbletiltskin the rampant climate change will:
- kill fish from the oceans
- wither the crops on the fields
- render some parts of the world unhabitable
- reduce our available drinkable water if microplastics don't do it first.
- rise sealevels thus mixing our garbage dumps with seawater.
It won't happen overnight but the way things are going it will be likely that no humans habit our planet after thousand years.
Aug 1, 2026, 2:49 PM@nemeciii @JulianOliver @crumbletiltskin those are all true, but climate change will still not wipe out humanity.
You can read the report I sent, or AR6, or the WHO report which has a lower number of human deaths, although they count differently.
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241507691
Hundreds of millions of people, and many ecosystems, are still worth fighting for. It doesn't have to be an extinction-level event for humanity for us to work to stop it.
@evan @JulianOliver @crumbletiltskin ah but this is limited to 2050. I'm talking about cascading effects that even with current emissions halted today would affect the next 1 000 years.
If we reach the +3°C scenario, farming will end; you don't need further research to deduce what will happen to humanity.