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Where do you realistically expect the world to be in terms of meeting the 2050 climate goals? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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With evidence mounting on the failure to limit global warming to 1.5C, do you think global carbon emissions will be low enough by 2050 to at least avoid the most catastrophic climate change doomsday scenarios forecast by the turn of the century?

I am somewhat hopeful most developed countries will get there but I wonder if developing countries will have the ability and inclination to buy into it as well.

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[–] jsveiga@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We'll not meet the goal limit, climate will change, the poor will suffer all the consequences, the rich will be mildly inconvenienced. Habitats will be destroyed, species will go extinct, life will go on.

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

So what you're saying is that life, uh, finds a way?

[–] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

life will go on.

It's the new normal

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much. The outcome is simple. By 2050, the rich will start moving their houses north-er than they already do, south asia and europe will be considered pre-tropical. America will start hearing the words "desertification" but people on the south border will still vote against their interests.

By 2150 the rich, whose numbers will already be severely culled, will run out of North to run to.

[–] jsveiga@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

By that time, Antartica will be the place to go.