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That climate change won’t wipe out humanity. I firmly believe we’ll survive, but it will be a massively devastating event, like 1/3 of the population will die. I think the equator will probably become uninhabitable, but more northern or southern land will become more like the equator. Maybe I’m wrong though, and we won’t survive. Maybe there’s a reason we don’t see any advanced space faring civilizations.
but the way you describe climate change makes it sound like it’s going to be a specific event on a specific day. it’s gonna be a slow boil that takes place over hundreds of years there’s gonna be lots of time to move populations. Huge migrations are gonna take place and all the while humans are gonna continue to reproduce. I don’t think you’re gonna see 30% of the human population wiped out. over the course that time the losses will be negligible due to the rate of births.
And you think the ensuing wars alone wouldn't kill half of us? It's going to be a shit show that the youngest generation will get to experience in its fullest
I didn’t mean to make it sound instant, but I don’t think it’s going to take hundreds of years. I think it’s more on the order of decades. The deaths I’m talking about will come from things like floods, famines, hurricanes, heat waves, etc.
Sad to say but I think you're right and came to almost the same conclusion some time ago. Except I think war and man-made famine will far outstrip anything even angry mother nature is going to do to us.
climate change has already started. It started 30+ years ago. We’ve seen the increase in hurricanes, the tornado alley expanded, increased conditions of drought etc... Yes, there may be specific incidents like the Atlantic currents stopping to function over the course of decades, but the full effect of climate change will be over the course of 300 to 1000 years.
Yep. The climate apocalypse is here, just just not evenly distributed yet.
New and fun communicable diseases has entered the chat.
tying that to the climate changing is kind of loose. unless you’re going to equate the increases of population density in certain areas adding into the already large issues we have in that regard. New and communicable disease diseases tend to come from close interactions with humans and animals, climate change may exacerbate that but over population is what really drives it. additionally, three out of the last five or six pandemics over the last 150 years are believed to have come from lab leaks.
I'm not aware of a single pandemic that "came from a lab leak" unless you're talking about abject morons who think COVID19 was a lab leak.
To your first point:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-08-29/viruses-permafrost-ancient-climate-melting-himalayas/104270012
German intelligence just last week released the report claiming with 95% certainty that Covid came from the lab. There’s been multiple articles in Reuters and sources about it. i’m not gonna go through and get all the research and site sources for the lab leak in the early 70s that came from the Soviets butGoogle around you can find it.
They'd have to have evidence in either of those two cases that the labs in question ever kept these virus and there is not. One eye witness. One document. I'd also accept research showing that a significant number of the initial cases could be traced to workers at a specific lab. There is nothing like that. It's pure speculation and the reports you cite admit as much.
The Republicans in the US House came to the same conclusion as to COVID. They are lying.
Within one or two decades, the exact family of bats in the exact cave where SARS CoV2 (COVID 19) originated will be irrefutably identified, just as it was with SARS CoV1 in a cave in Yunnan, China. As with both of those two viruses, most of the initial cases were in food handlers in China or people adjacent to food handlers, not in lab workers. The lab leak hypothesis is asinine, based on nothing more than racism.
It's not racism any more than me distrusting my government makes me racist against 'Americans'. It's more Occam's razor.
Pandemic of a virus that starts in the city that has THE LAB that studies that type of virus, in a country whose government where the one thing you can always count on them doing is covering up anything that makes them look bad? It's either that or a MASSIVE coincidence.
It makes sense and that's why people believe it's possible. I agree some evidence would be nice but considering who runs that country that's incredibly unlikely.
yes buddy it’s just racism. Everyone hates the chinks...