Would you think bad of me if I said that this figure of a billion potential deaths is probably much lower than what actually will occur? I'm not being deliberately pessimistic, just honest.
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If global warming reaches or exceeds two degrees Celsius by 2100, University of Western Ontario's Joshua Pearce says it is likely that mainly richer humans will be responsible for the death of roughly one billion mainly poorer humans over the next century.
The oil and gas industry, which includes many of the most profitable and powerful businesses in the world, is directly and indirectly responsible for more than 40% of carbon emissions — impacting the lives of billions of people, many living in the world's most remote and low-resourced communities.
"Such mass death is clearly unacceptable. It's pretty scary really, especially for our children," said Pearce. "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. We've done that here too and it still doesn't look good."
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Note that this is based on an assumption of 2C of global warming by the end of the century. Many scientists now think we will reach that level by 2040, and that we're likely to be well over 3C and perhaps over 4C by 2100. So unless things change very quickly, the future looks... horrific.
FULL STORY -- https://phys.org/news/2023-08-climate-changing-human-billion-deaths-century.html
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
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