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Originally Posted by JoshGirls Josh
just curious, what exactly would be great consequences?
just from what i know about humans. "Homo" has existed for 200,000 years, 50,000 as homo sapiens, 5000 as civilized homo sapiens. all those trillions of people had no tech. but survived ice ages, famines, plagues. so why is there such hand wringing about warming when humans have proved marvelously adaptable to their climates?
& for BFT3K. the earth once had 1000 ppm of CO2, no ice at either pole, basically a planetary jungle. but somehow, there were no oil companies & greedy companies 60 million years ago. how did the earth get so hot without them? even worse, the earth cooled to current levels. What happened that made the earth cool? as the answer does not conform with your fetish for hating corporations, im certain you will not bother to look into it.
enjoy your sunday evenings.  |
Well, a few things I can think of. If the polar ice caps fully melt, or melt most of the way, the ocean levels could raise and flood the coastlines and islands. This won't happen overnight so, in theory, we could have time to get people out of there. If the globe continues to warm we could find ourselves in a situation where there is less fresh water and the warmer climate with less fresh water could make food harder to grow. If the ocean temperature rises too much it could kill off much of the sea life that we eat reducing available food sources even more. There are also those that speculate that a hotter climate could cause more adverse weather. If we have to leave the coasts and move to the middle of he country and that area is constantly pounded by various storms, tornadoes, hurricanes etc. it could be a shitty situation.
We likely won't die, at least not all of us, but it could make life on the planet much more difficult and crowded.
Yes, we have been around for a long time and we have adapted to the climate, but not until recently have we been pumping tons upon tons of pollutants into the air and water so future climate changes could end up being unlike anything we have seen in the past.