I fucking hate this. Its all for literally nothing. For fucking money. Money. Imaginary pieces of paper. Even worse, imaginary numbers on a fucking screen. Data. It’s all for fucking nothing. We won’t avoid the 1.5 C mark, and it might come in 5 years. 2 C would mean basically the end of any semblance of normal, at all, and the collapse of the global south. Forget even 3 degrees, I’d probably already be dead. They won. They fucking won. No revolution in the Imperial Core is possible. Everyone is a chud, or a lib, or a left anticommunist. We can’t fucking win. It’s over. The world is over. doomjak

  • laziestflagellant [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Again, I am not talking about what’s going to happen tomorrow or next year. It might not be ten years from now either (at least I hope not). We are already seeing the impacts now, yes, but we’re not at 1.5 C yet nor at 2 C yet.

    These events do happen already, just not globally. Drought in the US in 2021 destroyed some states’ grain harvests, some states saw an almost 50% drop compared to 2020. For now, other states pick up the slack, or other seasons’ planting does, but as we get closer to 2 C, the extreme weather events become more frequent and more widespread.

    I don’t know what “very, very” is supposed to mean here. What is the lynchpin of domestic agricultural production in the US or China that would result in a 50% fall in crop yields?

    Drought, heat killing plants, floods, soil erosion and disruption in fertilizer production and supply lines.

    China is not currently preparing for 50% crop shortfall globally, but food security and independence is a major concern for China and Xi has talked about it repeatedly.

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      Drought in the US in 2021 destroyed some states’ grain harvests, some states saw an almost 50% drop compared to 2020

      Which state saw a 50% yield drop?

      food security and independence is a major concern for China and Xi has talked about it repeatedly.

      The country with a long and awful history of famine is going to have politicians fixated on preventing it from happening again.

      If climate change weren’t a thing, Xi would still be talking about it, because food security in a country of 1.4B people is vital.