> Climate change will cause agricultural failure and subsequent collapse of hyperfragile modern civilization, likely within 10–15 years. By 2050 total human population will likely be under 2 billion.
What an insane take. I would ask if I could bet against the author, but I'm sure they wouldn't take the bet since their winnings would be worthless in the hyperinflation of their apocalyptic dystopia.
Yeah, it's completely absurd and divorced from reality.
Civilization will not collapse by 2038, and the population of people will not be under 2 billion by 2050. Billions of people will not die due to climate change in the next 27 years. Anyone who thinks otherwise should see a psychiatrist.
What's insane is how plausible it sounds when you read through the article.
I guess the only positive with such short timescales is that we'll know very soon if he's right. I can't believe his magnitude, but even if 'just' 1 billion people are affected that's huge...
I didn't spend 76 minutes reading through the article, but I did click through to the Twitter profiles of the people he acknowledged as his sources, and they seemed like typical unhinged emotional scaremongerers who have a monetary incentive to doompost about the climate.
What I did find amusing is where our political beliefs aligned, namely our high distrust of government competency and cynical views of its corruption. There was a time when all leftists were like this. I'd have an easier time finding common ground with them than I would with the contemporary authoritarian leftist who blindly trusts the FBI and corporate media.
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[ 1.7 ms ] story [ 24.5 ms ] threadI thought this was a guide for the busy worker.
> Climate change will cause agricultural failure and subsequent collapse of hyperfragile modern civilization, likely within 10–15 years. By 2050 total human population will likely be under 2 billion.
What an insane take. I would ask if I could bet against the author, but I'm sure they wouldn't take the bet since their winnings would be worthless in the hyperinflation of their apocalyptic dystopia.
Civilization will not collapse by 2038, and the population of people will not be under 2 billion by 2050. Billions of people will not die due to climate change in the next 27 years. Anyone who thinks otherwise should see a psychiatrist.
I guess the only positive with such short timescales is that we'll know very soon if he's right. I can't believe his magnitude, but even if 'just' 1 billion people are affected that's huge...
What I did find amusing is where our political beliefs aligned, namely our high distrust of government competency and cynical views of its corruption. There was a time when all leftists were like this. I'd have an easier time finding common ground with them than I would with the contemporary authoritarian leftist who blindly trusts the FBI and corporate media.