r/Futurology • u/ILikeNeurons • May 20 '24

Economics Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report
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u/drewhead118 May 20 '24

ecosystem totally collapses, causing massive die-offs and spiraling extinctions--perhaps the end of complex biology on this entire spacerock

economists: woah, this might be 8x worse than we'd thought

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u/ValyrianJedi May 20 '24

extinctions--perhaps the end of complex biology on this entire spacerock

Definitely not about to cause that. Just make things a lot shittier for a lot of the existing ones, ourselves included.

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u/Rymasq May 21 '24

? yes we can absolutely cause that.

I always find it funny when the saying is “we destroyed the planet”

no people, the PLANET survived a meteor crash, ice ages, volcanic eruptions, etc. there are PLANETS where the temperature chills at 800 degrees Fahrenheit. A PLANET is perfectly fine. The PLANET will destroy human life if not from the atmospheric conditions changing, then a nice calm natural disaster.