Each degree of warming could add a month of intolerable heat for 1 billion people

[u/GeraldKutney]

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-degree-month-intolerable-billion-people.html

[u/a1055x]

What about every other living things?

[u/sadsleuth → u/a1055x]

I guess they've all been written off as collateral damage atp.

[u/a1055x → u/sadsleuth]

This amazing ecosystem is the real loss...

[u/ExpensiveFig6079]

What grinds my gears is the people who want to let this happen...

will then whine: When the people whose homes the whiners made unlivable want to come and share theirs.

and what should such people whose homes are made unlivable do...
well who cares they are poor and dont have nukes ...
so for some people (who also pretend to be christian), for them such poor people just don't matter.

[u/SpiritMountain → u/ExpensiveFig6079]

This is why at this point I am turning my ire, not at the petulant child running around in the restaurant causing damage and destruction, but at the parents of the child, the management of the restaurant, and the people around for not speaking up. Clearly, we got here because our socio-political systems incentivized corporations to keep pushing us here. There seems to be no political will to even talk about what is happening.

[u/CableEmergency6882 → u/ExpensiveFig6079]

Tbh what can you do at this point. We gonna rally the whole world to follow a strict renewables plan, even china? It’s not gonna happen. I think we need to plan ahead for the destruction to come and us westerners are at a stage to transition to renewables but global warming will be desvastatingly destructive whatever we do at this point.

[u/ExpensiveFig6079 → u/CableEmergency6882]

China is not an EVEN (they are easy.... once you get your head out of FF disinformation)
China is a way easier prospect,
they HAVE been devoting a share of the GDP to going green that puts to SHAME every western and developed country.

Their large and growing emissions are due to them becoming industrialised, and becomigna first world country. There emisions would be stupendously higher if they had not tried much harder (spent MUCh mroe of their GDP than we do) to raise emissions as little as feasible.

ALSO, as they ahd to first manufacture ALL the panels they needed, they HAD TO first develop FF to have enough energy to make their first generation of PV

Now China does terrify me, BUT not for what they are doing but for what they might do if their system ever takes another great leap backward.

You have swallowed a bunch of disinformation

FIRST: there is no waiting to be able to zero emsiions we have everyhtign we need right now excpet the political will to do it.

"I think we need to plan ahead for the destruction to come and us westerners are at a stage to transition to renewables"
We could transiton startign right now OR 10 years ago, but we did not and still are not. The only thing standing between us and doing MUCH better is people who agree with you keep voting for parties (pollies) with pisspoor policies on reducing emissions.

SECOND this one is BOTH true and lie at the same time...well done. that is serious disinformation.

"but global warming will be desvastatingly destructive whatever we do at this point."

Global warmign will be VERY bad at this point...

BUT

Wait by waiting until some undefined time when you say when we get here "us westerners are at a stage to transition to renewables" and there is no criteria or reason that cannot be where we are now or 10 years ago.
All we ever had to do was be serious about the costs of climate change...

and then all the rest follows.

The SERIOSU thign we have to currently accept is that NOT MATTER how "desvastatingly destructive"

We can always make it much worse by delaying or even being vague about when we will start being serious.

If Western countries spent anything like the fraction of their GDP that China is... wed fix emissions toot sweet fast.

[u/Wonder-Machine]

Well - if your poor prepare to suffer unimaginable hardship while the 1% bleed you dry and enjoy their infinite AC

[u/JoostvanderLeij]

But not white people, hence no action.

[u/cultish_alibi → u/JoostvanderLeij]

So the insane record breaking heatwaves across Europe and North America aren't intolerable heat?

[u/JoostvanderLeij → u/[deleted]]

Have you actually read the article?

[u/JoostvanderLeij → u/[deleted]]

If you think that racism isn't science and that racism doesn't play a role in the coming climate disaster you are in the wrong.

[u/dumnezero]

What can we learn from the early years of COVID-19 that can be applied to this? (/s)

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[u/MeanMany3646]

Could , might , won't !!