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[+] -10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"... over the next century," continues the article after the catchy headline.

Not that people dying is a good thing, but I was kind of hoping they'd be people alive right now. If 1/8th of the world treated climate change like it was personally going to kill them, we might still have a chance of turning things around. (As a bonus, can oil giants really keep their execs safe from 1 in 8 highly motivated people?)

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It kills the poor. Noone care about that, not even the poor as they won't be informed enough to know what's going on.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Definitely, because poor people don't watch the news and can't read.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Half the people in industrial countries barely grasp the seriousness of the situation so what do you expect from a farmer in Africa who thinks witchcraft is real?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    It doesn't need to kill them to completely disrupt social order. There's an estimate out there that there will be up to 1 billion climate refugees by 2050. The Global North already does not handle refugees as well, even though they consistently cause a large amount of the refugee problems.

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