Current Events > We will be extinct by 2100 at this rate!!!!

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God I hate this rhetoric. It's absolutely fearmongering at it's worst. We're all gonna be fine, likely for hundreds more years to come at the pace we're going. Thousands? Ehhh...

Not to write off climate change, it's a serious issue we NEED to address as a species. But this is no different from those people saying 'YOSEMITE IS GONNA BLOW ANY SECOND NOW!'.

It's frustrating, and only stresses the more insignificant people that can't change anything out. At the absolute worst, it's used as clickbait.

Annoying.

I'll have been dead for like 76 years

I don't know enough about science to comment on when humanity is gonna be fucked from climate change (not the point of no return, I mean mass extinction) but if it's not affecting my potential children/grandchildren I'm not that worried either. If it's 50 years from now that's scary. If it's 500 years, eh I won't be losing sleep

The clock just keeps getting reset. Which is why I think alot of people don't take it seriously.

Once you live through multiple doomsday predictions you start caring about them a lot less.

SergeantGander posted...

The clock just keeps getting reset. Which is why I think alot of people don't take it seriously.

Once you live through multiple doomsday predictions you start caring about them a lot less.

Unless you're a Republican in which case it's always the "end times"

At least Florida will be underwater by 2100.

That's a good goal, but I think we could hit 2050 easy.

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No no, you can only ever have one opinion and you can never change it, or else you aren't a real man.

I don't think people realize that the vast vast vast majority of pollution has occurred in the past 100 years. It's definitely an unsustainable trajectory.

Yeah. Climate change will kill a couple billion, but not all of humanity.

You can always tell who is scientifically illiterate by how they act to changing climate predictions. It shows that even the basics of the scientific method and how data emerges and is interpreted are poorly understood by the general public

It's not your fault tho. Education in these subjects are lacking, especially when it comes to critical thinking. And society as a whole is anti intellectual

Don't worry, things will have gotten so bad by then that people will be wishing for an untimely death.

SergeantGander posted...

The clock just keeps getting reset. Which is why I think alot of people don't take it seriously.

Once you live through multiple doomsday predictions you start caring about them a lot less.

Exactly. If you want people to care, you can't just don a tinfoil had every few seconds. Scare tactics don't work.

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It's more a case of people thinking the world will end from every natural disaster or random event ever. Yosemite is gonna erupt, global warming will kill us in X years, stuff that is absolutely false won't get people to change.

DarkRoast posted...

I don't think people realize that the vast vast vast majority of pollution has occurred in the past 100 years. It's definitely an unsustainable trajectory.

Of course, but there is no amount of pollution that would drive us to extinction within 100 years unless we nuke the atmosphere with a super pollution bomb lol.

Being sarcastic, but we won't be able to affect anything quick enough to kill us as a species within the next 100 years. 1000? That is possible.

uwnim posted...

Yeah. Climate change will kill a couple billion, but not all of humanity.

Not anytime soon, but yes, it will. And we should worry about it and it's effect NOW.

ThyCorndog posted...

You can always tell who is scientifically illiterate by how they act to changing climate predictions. It shows that even the basics of the scientific method and how data emerges and is interpreted are poorly understood by the general public

It's not your fault tho. Education in these subjects are lacking, especially when it comes to critical thinking. And society as a whole is anti intellectual

You do realize I'm talking more or less about studies that end up getting sensationalized into being yet another doomsday clock, right? Then the flock of idiots who will run around saying the world is gonna end in the next 10 years or whatever?

Or are you just gonna keep acting like you're actually understanding of what the topic is about.

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I'm not discrediting correct information.

But running around yelling Yosemite is gonna blow any moment, or is overdue for an explosion, doesn't help anyone.

Neither do the articles spouting false information. Scare tactics don't work, unless you're using them for clickbait.

Slayer_22 posted...

God I hate this rhetoric. It's absolutely fearmongering at it's worst. We're all gonna be fine, likely for hundreds more years to come at the pace we're going. Thousands? Ehhh...

Not to write off climate change, it's a serious issue we NEED to address as a species. But this is no different from those people saying 'YOSEMITE IS GONNA BLOW ANY SECOND NOW!'.

It's frustrating, and only stresses the more insignificant people that can't change anything out. At the absolute worst, it's used as clickbait.

Annoying.

@dolomedes I made the topic. That is exactly what this topic is about.

Its not just the literal apocalypse you should think about. Its likely that well all experience the effects of major refugee crises caused by climate change within our lifetimes, for example.

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The claim I was making has not been cited in any studies and only paraphrased by articles or doomsday theorists who misconstrued what studies have presented the information with, which is the exact same stuff they have been doing with Yosemite.

No scientist worth their salt would say we will go extinct via climate change by 2050. They'd be discredited immediately by people who actually have posted studies on this.

Shablagoo posted...

Its not just the literal apocalypse you should think about. Its likely that well all experience the effects of major refugee crises caused by climate change within our lifetimes, for example.

Again, I am trying to stress that we NEED to worry about climate change, but false information like what idiots will say about climate change causing our extinction in just a few years time will absolutely NOT help the cause in the slightest.

2100 is kinda generous.

Not extinct, but society as we know it will have collapsed by then. Unless we clean up our act and start treating the biosphere with care that is.

The consensus of people who study this for a living vs "Eh that sounds crazy, that couldn't really happen"

You mean Yellowstone, not Yosemite. No one says a mountain range in California is going to erupt. And no one says we'll be extinct from climate change by 2100.

TheOtherMike posted...

You mean Yellowstone, not Yosemite. No one says a mountain range in California is going to erupt. And no one says we'll be extinct from climate change by 2100.

Yeah, I do. My bad. I'm admittedly pretty tired.

But a lot of people do believe it(people are arguing it's correct in this very topic). No reputable sources, but people do.

Yosemite is definitely gonna blow its top
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Spidey5 posted...

Yosemite is definitely gonna blow its top
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Ragginfragginrabbit.

Slayer_22 posted...

But a lot of people do believe it(people are arguing it's correct in this very topic). No reputable sources, but people do.

No, one person said 2100 is "kinda generous," and that could easily have been facetious. No one else is actually arguing that we're facing extinction in less than 80 years. Certainly not "people."

I think the main issue that many people have with climate change, and them basically pretending it doesn't exists, it that the changes incurred happen so slowly, it's not noticed, because society adapts to it.

Even something as simple as (most) cars being more fuel efficient than they were 30 years ago has helped. Anyone that wants a car still has one, and the fact that they more fuel efficient is something we notice day to day in our wallet (although not recently), not necessarily in our environment.

Many cars are getting 25-30 miles a gallon, whereas 35-40 years ago ZERO cars were that fuel efficient. That alone has slowed things down.

So that's an example of "Things will get REALLY bad if we don't do something!" because... we did something.

TheOtherMike posted...

No, one person said 2100 is "kinda generous," and that could easily have been facetious. No one else is actually arguing that we're facing extinction in less than 80 years. Certainly not "people."

Sure lol.