• uphillbothways
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    861 year ago

    This rule is actually “an order of magnitude best estimate”, which means it’s more of a range, somewhere between 0.1 to 10 deaths per 1000 tons of carbon burned.

    That leaves a lot of room for scenarios even more dire than the one outlined here.

    “When climate scientists run their models and then report on them, everybody leans toward being conservative, because no one wants to sound like Doctor Doom,” explains Pierce.

    “We’ve done that here too and it still doesn’t look good.”

    Translation: 10 billion people will die.

    2nd translation: Almost everyone will die.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      My wild ass guess is humanity will eventually die back to, at best, bronze age population levels.

    • @[email protected]
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      141 year ago

      So what you’re saying is… we are going to enter a dark age… and we could use a Foundation to lessen it’s impact on humanity?

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    • knexcar
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      -601 year ago

      Or it could end up being less bad than we expect.

      • @krashmo
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        761 year ago

        Said every apologist ever. Look around you man. It’s already pretty bad out there. How much worse does it need to be before you stop downplaying the situation?

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      • theodewere
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        241 year ago

        less bad than the conservative estimates of their models… you can’t read properly can you…

        • anonionfinelyminced
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          321 year ago

          I told my friend about all my problems, and he said, “Cheer up! Things could be worse!”
          So, I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse.