Bodies and deaths … unless the number of dead climb much much higher than they are now … no one will do anything.
Not until we reach tens of thousands or even millions of deaths will we start wanting to actually do anything realistic … and even then, we’ll probably fight over the details of how or even if we should do anything.
Probably posted lots before but it’s the first chapter of “Ministry for the Future”, which describes the tipping point. It’s uncomfortable reading. https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/the-ministry-for-the-future/
But think of the shareholders!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The heatwaves, wildfires and floods experienced today were just the “tip of the iceberg” compared with even worse effects to come, they said, with limitations in climate models leaving the world “flying partially blind” into the future.
With fears that humanity’s relentless carbon emissions have finally pushed the climate crisis into a new and accelerating phase of destruction, the Guardian sought the expert assessments of more than 40 scientists from around the world.
“July was the hottest month in human history and people around the world are suffering the consequences,” said Prof Piers Forster at the University of Leeds, UK.
Dr Christophe Cassou, a CNRS researcher at the Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, in France, said: “Changes in [climate] hazards have not been underestimated at global scale.
“Knowing that we will look back on today’s extreme events as mild relative to what lies in our future is truly mind-boggling,” said Prof Andrea Dutton at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US.
It is being hosted by the United Arab Emirates and being presided over by Sultan Al Jaber, the chief executive of the UAE’s state oil company.
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