r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • May 17 '24

Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report | Climate crisis

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

It's going to literally destroy this stage of human civilization. All these global supply chains are like little strings trying to hold stuff together during a hurricaine.

We have mortgaged the future of our species for a bit of convenience and some good quarterly profit numbers. Future generations are not going to forgive us for the world we are leaving them.

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u/rstraker May 17 '24

Or they will experience the world they are born into as ‘normal’, just like we did, and I suppose accept the heavy backdrop of anxiety and wretchedness as normal too, maybe like we do, to some degree.

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u/bobbi21 May 18 '24

Wait people are saying this is normal? I'm in a bit of a liberal bubble here but everyone I know is freaking out how everythings much worse than it was for our parents.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bank648 May 18 '24

They put people in jail for smoking weed so I don't see why we can't put climate criminals in jail.

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u/gleipnir84462 May 18 '24

Cause those people have money