Each degree is likely hundreds of millions of deaths if not more.
Yes, but what's more is that it's probably an exponential curve sort of thing. Not only do more deaths occur as the degrees (or fractions of degrees) rise, the rate at which more deaths occur rises. There will come a point where there can't be any more deaths because there won't be any more people (and who knows how many species and how much of the biosphere will be wiped off the planet too). We don't even know for sure yet how many degrees of rise is already baked in and literally inevitable. As @flowernet@hexbear.net pointed out, there are tipping points which trigger feedback loops that simply can't be undone.
And before anyone gets mad at me and says that talking this way is "irresponsible" and "doomerism," you had better be out there at the very least organizing and agitating specifically with climate change in mind. Because if it's not too late already, it absolutely will be if capitalism is allowed to run its course. By too late, I really do mean too late to prevent a world that humanity literally could not survive on. It's not doomerism to discuss reality and remind people that the situation is more dire than most people realize. And it's not just climate denying chuds or head-in-the-sand libs who don't get how easily the worst case scenarios truly could become reality. Even otherwise well-informed leftists sometimes naively think "well sure, it's bad, but we'll pull through somehow!" If you think that's the case, no offense, but I think you don't have a proper sense of scale.
This kind of "ah well, nevertheless" language from good old Obummer, the "well shit, looks like we missed that goal, but maybe we can get the next one," kind of exemplifies what I'm talking about. The very epitome of
Yes, but what's more is that it's probably an exponential curve sort of thing. Not only do more deaths occur as the degrees (or fractions of degrees) rise, the rate at which more deaths occur rises. There will come a point where there can't be any more deaths because there won't be any more people (and who knows how many species and how much of the biosphere will be wiped off the planet too). We don't even know for sure yet how many degrees of rise is already baked in and literally inevitable. As @flowernet@hexbear.net pointed out, there are tipping points which trigger feedback loops that simply can't be undone.
And before anyone gets mad at me and says that talking this way is "irresponsible" and "doomerism," you had better be out there at the very least organizing and agitating specifically with climate change in mind. Because if it's not too late already, it absolutely will be if capitalism is allowed to run its course. By too late, I really do mean too late to prevent a world that humanity literally could not survive on. It's not doomerism to discuss reality and remind people that the situation is more dire than most people realize. And it's not just climate denying chuds or head-in-the-sand libs who don't get how easily the worst case scenarios truly could become reality. Even otherwise well-informed leftists sometimes naively think "well sure, it's bad, but we'll pull through somehow!" If you think that's the case, no offense, but I think you don't have a proper sense of scale.
This kind of "ah well, nevertheless" language from good old Obummer, the "well shit, looks like we missed that goal, but maybe we can get the next one," kind of exemplifies what I'm talking about. The very epitome of