1.5°C climat goal is gone with 2024/2025 being every day being above that. A positive view of science says we are heading to a 2.7°C hell by 2100. Thought with current politics that is highly doubtful and we might already have that with 2050.
Especially fellow young people, i would like to hear your look apon the future, are you doing something now because you probably wont be able to do it in the future?
How will you imagine life will be like? Will you have to move because of the rising sea levels?
For me i see black. Its over and this is the coldest we will ever have it. I am enjoying somewhat livible summers and lukewarm winters (I remember when there was snow) as long as i can. The future is done for and im angry and sadend by all the people that dont care or actively fight against enviormental policies and living
I think I’ll be dead before we see any life changing differences.
Unlike those who came before me, I DO care, and I want us to turn shit around, so my kids don’t have to deal with an apocalypse, but, I’m not completely against a giant meteorite ending it all at any moment.
I mean, I’m living in hurricane alley. Very easy to see a future in which I’m through another Katrina or Harvey or Sandy. Only question is whether municipal and state services will be able to keep the lights after the next one.
Could very easily see a future in which a chunk of the city loses power or transportation to such a degree that it becomes functionally uninhabitable.
Doing my part to stop the spread of humanity by not having kids. I don’t really care what the future holds. The planet’s fine and will be so much better off without us (c’mon, meteor!) and I’m still pretty confident that the oligarchs will get what’s coming to them. Or their offspring will get what was coming for their parents. Regardless, that’s something to live for…
Same, but Coronal Mass Ejection
Same, but gamma ray burst.
Same. I feel better about my vasectomy each day.
I expect people to slowly transition to living more in underground networks like Toronto’s PATH as the outside becomes more uninhabitable. Of course, realistically I don’t expect anything to change in my lifetime.
Also rooting for the meteorite
The last decade has shown us how stupid humans are and how unprepared we are for the complex future that awaits us.
We’re fucked.
Enjoy what you can, while you can.
I don’t know. No one knows for certain.
I worry for my state; New Jersey is surrounded on three sides by water
I can imagine it sabbotaging some very basic thing that our society currently takes for granted (like growing crops) and then even just baseline functioning at our current level would become much harder, causing a global recession.
It will be increasingly important to have access to buildings able to withstand extreme climate events and have access to climatisation. Maybe our diet will change a bit. Surely there will be an impact on the vegetation, animals, and diseases.
For some parts of the world the future will be mass emigration and conflicts around resources.
Get to the furthest large major city away from the equator or I’d die in 40C heat. Anything in the 40s latitude is already toast.
I think the Earth is in a state of transitioning to a hot era, which it has done many times before. We are coming out of a cold era as we speak. The future might look bleak while we scrounge as it happens. But the Earth will bounce back. I’m not worried.
