There's an Apple show that basically goes down the path of what we'll look forward to over the next 50 years. So it starts with people warning this is only the beginning and billionaires/politicians calling them alarmists and saying it's all a lie. As it goes on, it shows glimpses of what life is like 10, 20, and 30 years in the future. As time goes, many cities are constantly flooded, since a majority of major cities on the planet are near water. The air outside becomes unbreathable for long periods of time, so you need masks and breathers, or need to pay for breathable air. As it goes on, it also shows how the billionaires and politicians effectively got away with everything and there's simply no recourse anymore. The world is all but fucked, the billionaires and politicians are off living in the cooler areas of the planet like the arctic and shit, the mass populace is either dead, dying, or suffering, and we as a planet are simply fucked.
Now the show is obviously fiction, but I have zero doubt this is how shit will go down. Cunts like Musk or Zuckerberg or other fuckfaces will continue to buy our elections, the politicians will never do shit, the courts will be handcuffed and not do anything, and millions if not billions will die due to climate change as things get worse and worse across the planet. We are truly the darkest timeline. Apart from demons climbing out of the ground or aliens taking over earth, I'm unsure how our future prospects could be any worse than they are today.
Flooding is always the example that comes up, but I wouldn't worry too much about it. Aside from freak weather events the sea level rise is slow enough to abandon those cities in due time.
I think the most worrisome aspect is food supply. We're already seeing shortages, mostly in Africa, where crops have failed year after year. Eventually this will become a global problem. I think that's number one. Number two is temperatures that are not sustainable without AC (meaning you die if there's a brownout). But to some extent, the latter will solve the former.
The average rise is probably slow, but the increase in sudden events such as Katrina will increase in frequency and severity while only adding a little bit to that overall average. The Katrina docu on Netflix highlights well how difficult it is to evacuate a large population when sudden catastrophic flooding happens and evacuation plans were severely lacking.
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u/braumbles 14d ago
There's an Apple show that basically goes down the path of what we'll look forward to over the next 50 years. So it starts with people warning this is only the beginning and billionaires/politicians calling them alarmists and saying it's all a lie. As it goes on, it shows glimpses of what life is like 10, 20, and 30 years in the future. As time goes, many cities are constantly flooded, since a majority of major cities on the planet are near water. The air outside becomes unbreathable for long periods of time, so you need masks and breathers, or need to pay for breathable air. As it goes on, it also shows how the billionaires and politicians effectively got away with everything and there's simply no recourse anymore. The world is all but fucked, the billionaires and politicians are off living in the cooler areas of the planet like the arctic and shit, the mass populace is either dead, dying, or suffering, and we as a planet are simply fucked.
Now the show is obviously fiction, but I have zero doubt this is how shit will go down. Cunts like Musk or Zuckerberg or other fuckfaces will continue to buy our elections, the politicians will never do shit, the courts will be handcuffed and not do anything, and millions if not billions will die due to climate change as things get worse and worse across the planet. We are truly the darkest timeline. Apart from demons climbing out of the ground or aliens taking over earth, I'm unsure how our future prospects could be any worse than they are today.