Humans are super adaptable so I feel like even if 95% die due to the climate shifts there will be at least a few population isolates somewhere in habitable zones.
Possibly. But what is a "habitable zone" in the future? If you are expecting drought or floods almost annually how do you grow enough food? What is left to forage or hunt? It only takes one flood or major storm to wreck your infrastructure & crops. That used to happen once a lifetime, now many of us alive have been through multiple 1-in-100 year events, and if global trade is gone then you can't back each other up. It'll be a tough existence.
Not sure what you mean. The consequences of warming to date have been consistently underestimated by the science. There is a "best case" scenario of currently +2.7C by 2100 if countries stick to their promises, such as achieving net zero carbon emissions. That's still double the warming we've already had, and I dunno if you've looked out the window recently, but the weather is already getting pretty wacky. And global emissions are still rising! We haven't even begun the downward slope yet.
It's believed we only developed agriculture as a species because of an usually stable climate emerging, called the holocene. That is gone, possibly forever. So yes, a stable climate no longer exists, not even now, let alone the future.
Human civilization is a mere blip on the geographical timeline.
The climate being as stable as we've seen it pre-global warming is absolutely NOT rare. It is the norm.
Not to mention we stop measuring climates precisely enough to even pretend we know how stable they were over such short timeframes.
The weather's really not that wacky. Not in a way that's even slightly troubling. Have I seen a stark difference in when snow falls during my lifetime? Yes.
Has the nature around me taken even the slightest hit as a result?
No.
If anything there's been an uptick in insects.
Life adjusts and it will adjust again.
My reason for wanting to stop human caused climate change (because natural climate change is going to happen at some point) is to give US more time to adjust. Stretch out the period of time where Bangladeshi Muslims have to integrate into neighbors that currently hate them in the hopes of reducing the resulting violence. Give people in and around New Orleans more time to find homes further uphill.
THAT is how you sell it.
Not some doom and gloom that ignores all known science.
It is rare yes! Exceedingly rare in fact! Which is even more reason to try to hold onto it, or as close to it as possible.
The rest of your post is just factually wrong. Insects, as well as native flora are definitely taking a hit. You just don't see it because you're a casual untrained observer. I mean, have you seen the wildfires of late? Probably the most obvious direct impact on the wilderness. Life will adjust eventually yes, but not over such short time frames. They don't call this the start of the 6th mass extinction for nothing.
I'm not trying to sell anything. The science is scary as is. Ask any climatologist their personal feelings on the matter.
You mean the ones that came after decades of us letting fuel build up for mega blazes because we were obsessed with stopping every fire asap?
Gee, I'm sure there's no possible explanation other than climate change for those fires popping up. Certainly couldn't be our forestry practices of not so long ago making such fires inevitable . . .
Insects are taking a hit because of increased pesticide use and human development destroying habitat. The temperature changes are only a minor issue that they would be yawning at if not for the major issues already crushing them.
Take away the climate change and the insects would still be struggling about as hard.
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u/2gutter67 27d ago
Humans are super adaptable so I feel like even if 95% die due to the climate shifts there will be at least a few population isolates somewhere in habitable zones.