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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year agoThere’s no way it’d wipe us all out even if fossil fuels had continued being the only practical tech. Even at double-digit temperature increase Antarctica is quite habitable, and we’ve passed through bottlenecks of only a few tens of thousands of people before. Some wartorn feudal Antarctic civilisation would continue on.
What this means is that we might put the Earth into a new persistent state, but then it will stop and we have an opportunity to either just adapt or try and push it back.
TheInsane42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s already predicted that we would live as species in the artic circles as that’s the only area still inhabitable with the prospected 3-4C temp rise. (as long as it’s high enough) I’m not sure if I’d want to live to see that happen.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Do you have a link for that? The 2 C predictions have us living in a wrecked world with almost no coral reefs but with about the same agricultural output, IIRC.
TheInsane42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not sure how your Dutch is, but this is the article I found in our paper: nrc.nl/…/dichtbevolkte-gebieden-op-aarde-worden-l…
It is probably behind a paywall. (at least in our country nun subscribers get 4 free articles a month)
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Thanks! A machine translation.
That’s very interesting, humans have a measurable preferred average temperature. It doesn’t suggest that it will be impossible to live in India in this scenario, just much less appealing. I already live well outside of our preferred niche towards the cold end, for example. That’s not to say that it’s a good situation, I hope I haven’t come across as suggesting that, but we’re very hard to kill. I think humans are on the same tier of adaptability as small terrestrial invertebrates at this point; if they can survive probably so can we.
Here’s a current temperature map so you can see where 11-15C is. India and Egypt seem to be hot-side outliers to start with, having been extensively populated for a long time, as does West Africa. South Africa and Argentina are noticeable areas that are climatically perfect without having too much going on.