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[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

‘Average’ does a lot of heavy lifting here. Let’s get this straight: you and I would live in squalor, if we would live at all. The 1% would have become the 0.01%, living in splendid wealth in the few remaining habitable places on the globe.

This is why climate justice is so important.

Yep, let's see the median.

"If"? When 😮‍💨

[–] eleitl@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

I'd say an average person has at least a 40% chance of being dead at +4 C above preindustrial baseline. Agriculture would be nigh impossible for starters.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago

Average voter: "I know who to blame for this! It's the immigrants who are at fault!"

Rich people: yes, yes, fuel that hatred! Don't look here!

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If the world is warmed by 4C, we'd be close to mass humans dying

[–] asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Humans are dying NOW. Heat related deaths are soaring, equatorial regions are close to uninhabitable already. Anyone who can read graphs and plot trajectories can see this is ending badly. The most common phrase from climate scientists lately is "It is happening much faster than expected".

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Close to? It's all but a certainty. The global world order we enjoy today would also be as good as gone. We're talking large swathes of the globe being uninhabitable by humans.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

40% poorer?

The ice age was caused by a difference of about 6 degrees C.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 1 day ago

Even the Little Ice Age had bad consequences, and that was 1-2 °C cooling.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 9 points 1 day ago

Look at me, ahead of the curve.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's okay I'm sure capitalism can capitalism it's way out of a capitalism caused crisis -Rex Tillerson

Jokes on you, 60% of nothing is still zero!