Scientist warn 1 billion on track to die from climate change.
Scientist warn 1 billion on track to die from climate change.
The fossil fuels that humanity burns today will be a death sentence for many lives tomorrow.
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"... over the next century," continues the article after the catchy headline.
Not that people dying is a good thing, but I was kind of hoping they'd be people alive right now. If 1/8th of the world treated climate change like it was personally going to kill them, we might still have a chance of turning things around. (As a bonus, can oil giants really keep their execs safe from 1 in 8 highly motivated people?)
It kills the poor. Noone care about that, not even the poor as they won't be informed enough to know what's going on.
Unfortunate. We're the boiling frog fable all over again.
Definitely, because poor people don't watch the news and can't read.
Half the people in industrial countries barely grasp the seriousness of the situation so what do you expect from a farmer in Africa who thinks witchcraft is real?
This seems really racist dude. Very colonialist to assume this. A lot of people in non-industrialised and industrialist countries believe in a sky daddy and that heaven and hell are real. They may as well believe in witchcraft.
That doesn't make the african farmer believe in climate change.
It doesn't need to kill them to completely disrupt social order. There's an estimate out there that there will be up to 1 billion climate refugees by 2050. The Global North already does not handle refugees as well, even though they consistently cause a large amount of the refugee problems.
A century isn't that long and 1 billion people is a huge portion of the global populace.