Comment by paulryanrogers
3 years ago
> Climate change is not an existential risk to humanity, it may be an existential risk to modern human societies, it is definitely an existential risk to millions of people.
This strikes me as nit picking. Can any hominids survive wet bubble conditions? Because what we know of as humanity cannot. And the conditions are becoming more common. Large swaths of limited habitable space are becoming uninhabitable, and there's no guarantee future conditions will make other areas more habitable. (Whether due to permafrost releasing toxins, forever chemicals, microplastic accumulation, etc.)
I assume you meant "wet bulb temps over 90°F" because we face "wet bulb conditions" all the time.
There is a genuine risk that significant areas will face sustained wet bulb temps that will make survival without AC impossible there.
However, there are plenty of habitable regions that will not face those temps. Those areas may face climatic shift that decrease their carrying capacity, but there isn't any known scientific reason to think that climate change is going to make the earth completely uninhabitable and it is just fear mongering to claim otherwise.
Likewise, it irresponsible to dismiss the existential threat facing many millions of people because it isn't an existential threat to the survival of the species.
It’s not nitpicking, it’s a direct responso to Barrin92