Now, the annoying part here is that this is the best case scenario for the climate as well. If mankind does in fact manage to turn around this massive force, people like you will simply be gloating and claiming that there was nothing to worry about in the first place.
It's speculation on top of speculation on top of speculation.
There are much bigger impacts than climate change on disease development, yet these hardly get the same attention.
And yes climate change is a constant in history. However what is new is significant change in the timescale of a human life. Meaning we won't adapt gratefully as a society. Previously cities becoming uninhabitable would be abandoned slowly over the course of centuries.
Now we will have a situation where a significant portion of the population will have to move in their lifetime. That's the kind of stuff that causes hostility and wars. And given how good we've become at mass-killing humans, that is a frightening prospect.
Some areas will become uninhabitable. Others will become more habitable. Humanity won't go extinct.
Some other species will yes, but that was not what I meant. And we've made species extinct long before the industrial age :( I should have elaborated.
It's an amazing lesson in scale. In the early game, it's pretty easy to recover from supply chain issues and refactor your setup to adjust to your growth needs and expansion across the land. Once you reach mid to late game, and something goes wrong, your whole factory starts to grind to halt as you try to diagnose where in the whole system things have clogged up, you need to measure and monitor throughput to make sure you are producing the materials needed for consumption by other machines at a rate that is sustainable. Refactoring at this point really means shutting most of it down and building from the ground up again.
Kind of like humanity 100s & 1000s of years ago. Most of life was localized, food, raw materials. We were not over fishing the seas or pushing the soils to the limit. The scale of humanity now, is such that all the supply chains, food and resource requirements depend on such a plethora of things running as they have been, uninterrupted (gas, food, water supplies, raw materials, spare parts).
That is why this argument about "climate disasters in the past" really never made sense to me. This is an entirely different game.
And yes, "humanity" may survive. But just like the factory that stops working that needs to be largely deconstructed and re-built, a lot of people will be unnecessarily plunged into hardship, famine and probably death. Economies and societies will be affected in ways we really can't imagine.
The question then is, what will humanity and society look like after? And what will our successors and future generations think of their ancestors who had the time, knowledge and the technology to ease or circumvent their suffering.
Yes, but not 8 billion of us living in vast cities with 80+ year life expectancies.
Are you prepared to live like a viking again?
Realise also that cold weather kills far more people than warm weather does [1]:
Cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather, according to an international study analyzing over 74 million deaths in 384 locations across 13 countries. The findings also reveal that deaths due to moderately hot or cold weather substantially exceed those resulting from extreme heat waves or cold spells. (source: The Lancet)
[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520193831.h...
Now, I don't know if you've noticed, but the world is not entirely made up if rural Sweden
[1] https://blog.creaf.cat/en/noticies-en/the-world-has-become-g...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/02/28/nasa-says...
[3] https://grist.org/climate-energy/earth-is-getting-greener-he...
Sure, molds are great for the environment! Molds in your lunchbox? not so much. You have built a whole narrative out of sparsely collected news pieces on a single issue.
Not to mention, you neglect the waves of climate refugees who will be on your farm's land as soon as their not-Sweden cannot produce the crops that your land provides.
2. How many live in warm weather areas like rural Bangladesh?
And at that point, it will be far too late. Hell just look at France, Italy and Germany right now - France has had to cut output of their few remaining reactors that are not broken down because the rivers are too dry and hot to supply adequate cooling water, Germany's Rhine is almost incapable of letting ships float, meaning that the country's most important freight waterway is at 25% capacity and soon none at all, and in Italy the agricultural sector faces never-seen-before bad harvests due to the drought which is the hardest since 1800 [1] when the measurement of weather began.
We are already in the catastrophic scenario, we can only hope and act to make it not worse than it already is - but without panic there won't be any change!
[1] https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/das-schlaraffenland-verdurstet-...
I mean, humanity made it through. No-one is realistically concerned that global warming is going to entirely wipe out humanity. A lot of _people_ didn't make it through, though.
Without religion or kids giving a reason to live, mostly living for oneself is very depressive. (I know also people with kids do this)
Having a goal higher than yourself, especially that is of the highest moral purpose is very liberating.
It comes at a cost though, reason goes out of the window.
This doesn't mean there aren't real concern, but yeah the world is not ending.
Why do you think all climate activists do not practice religion?
Why do you think fighting for the environment is not part of a moral purpose?
Why do you think climate activists lack a sense of meaning?
Earth will abide. Mankind will abide. The climate will keep changing as it has always done. Some areas will become more amenable to agriculture, others will become less so. The planet will become greener due to the increased carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere and later it will become more barren when the carbon dioxide content goes down again as it has done countless times already.