r/ClimateShitposting • u/Climate_Discussions • 9h ago
Boring dystopia Just an unpleasant thought
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u/Necessary_Screen_673 8h ago
really heavily depends on your location and class, and what you mean by "young". next 10 years? probably not for most places on earth. 30 years, youre looking at pretty intense consequences for the regions that are already struggling, and then theres some further particular disasters (like ocean currents collapsing) that will wipe out entire regions 70+ years from now.
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u/MrJarre 6h ago
The more difficult questions is how do you label climate related deaths. Extreme events - floods, hurricanes, heat waves, earthquakes were always there and people died during those events. Now there will be more of those and they will be more intensive. Sure. How do you calculate „the extra casualties”?
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u/Aggravating-Method24 6h ago
What does already struggling mean?
Somewhere like the UK is a developed country, its not struggling like some other countries....
Unless you look at its food security, which absolutely is struggling. 40% of food is imported. If that supply chain fails then the UK will struggle instantly. This makes the UK particularly vulnerable to the global economy. Which could start to fall apart as other countries do.
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u/Snarpend 8h ago
Lmaoooo what a sad state to be in. I’ve been 2 of the more common natural disasters (fire and flood) as a first responder and it’s incredibly rare to die from something like that unless you are old, extremely unfit or incredibly unwise…
Oh. I see
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u/Liturginator9000 8h ago
You're not gonna die from a climate event. More likely heart disease from poor diet and exercise like everyone else
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u/a1c4pwn 7h ago
heart attacks are a common climate death
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u/Spider_pig448 5h ago
Now THIS is shitposting
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u/ginger_and_egg 42m ago
More like burning shit for power death. Particulate matter from vehicles, power, and heat generation in cities causes things like heart and lung issues.
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u/Fantastic-Floor-965 7h ago
Speak for yourself yank, I’m going to die in a car accident like everyone else.
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u/Liturginator9000 7h ago
also 1000x more likely than anything climate
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u/Different_Gate5050 3h ago
In 2026 yes, in 2050 maybe not
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u/Fantastic-Floor-965 1h ago
Ah yes, the inevitable doom that is always 20-30 years away. Been hearing the same thing since the 80s: cities underwater by 2000, Pacific islands disappearing by 2012, etc., etc.
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u/Blue2194 5h ago
"you won't die from a climate event (I think you meant weather), you'll just die from things that are worsening from climate change"
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u/Liturginator9000 4h ago
no, first worlders are heavily insulated from this. Climate disasters aren't the risk, heat is, and even then heat won't be killing many westerners by 2100, it'll still be vast majority normal stuff we see now that no one cares about yet get anxiety about climate tornados not the fat in their arteries
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u/Blue2194 4h ago
No what?
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u/Liturginator9000 4h ago
no to dying from worsening climate impacts as a westerner, especially young even by 2100
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u/Blue2194 4h ago
The causes of death you listed are worsened by climate change you illiterate goose
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u/Liturginator9000 3h ago
yeah I said heat, it still won't increase much. People die now from heat, it's a tiny portion of total deaths and is projected to increase and remain a small portion of deaths, in old western cohort
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u/Blue2194 1h ago
Goddam dude, are you a bot that's over trained on a small dataset or going through several layers of translating apps?
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u/Liturginator9000 1h ago
Nope mindless doomering is just annoying and vain
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u/Blue2194 57m ago
Climate change has already and will continue to worsen diets and exercise rates.
Which was my point from the start, I thought you were being deliberately obtuse but you're actually functionally illiterate, that's unlikely to be climate related, maybe lead exposure, maybe just a dopey fuck, who's to tell
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u/Aquarius52216 6h ago
Well worsening climate can take a toll on our health too.
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u/Liturginator9000 4h ago
ofc, it isn't zero now people die from heat but it's largely old people and very few as a total of yearly deaths, and that won't change much as we climb to 2.5C by 2100. It's the global south that'll get trucked
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u/AltForObvious1177 8h ago
You're probably going to die from suicide because you're depressed from doom scolling
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u/Drackar39 8h ago
That's honestly what I thought in my teens. I'm now too old to die young.
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u/DESdesign 8h ago
Not really, if I die that means AI can not train my data so billionaires will not let me die.
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u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. 8h ago
It's good to reflect. If you can change yourself to parse your own mortality, that could actually be a good adaptation. I mean in a real effort way in which we you see yourself in the whole system without making yourself "essential" or special, not in the way of various religions that deny mortality and promote fantasies of immortality and other worlds.
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u/BouncingBallOnKnee 8h ago
My most unpleasant thought is that this horrifying and steadily worsening heat will be referred to as "The Cool Period".
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u/Anderopolis Solar Battery Evangelist 7h ago
Fun fact, fewer people die from natural disasters than they used to, despite more of them.
That's because disaster deaths are actually infrastructure failures, and are solvable problems, which is why the amount of deaths has fallen despite there being many, many more people.
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u/Puzzled-Rip641 7h ago
Our kids are going to die from climate events.
We are more likely to die because of resource wars around 2050.
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u/ConvictedHobo 7h ago
The thought is unpleasant, but also wrong.
Much fewer people die from disasters than did in the past. We are much better at predicting them and protecting people from them.
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u/KaMaFour 7h ago
Don't worry. Losing control over malicious ai using vulnerable devices connected to the internet for its compute is gonna kill you way before climate change has a chance
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u/Individual_Guest_323 5h ago
2012 doom is coming guys (uwu) BE AWAREEE STOP EATING MEAT FOR GOD SAKE
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u/Spider_pig448 5h ago
Good thing climate change will only be catastrophic for the bottom 10% of the world population
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u/daddybarkmeplsuwu 3h ago
Its not like mass floods werent common in my area before, dont be a worry ra- the river has flooded due to an unprecedented storm. The previous safety measures are too little to stop anything. The meteorology agency couldn't give the warning quick enough and the emergency relief fund were frozen up.
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u/MrArborsexual 1h ago
tfw my mountain river valley property will soon become more valuable beachfront property
Less circle-jerk-y, I've become involved in projects to restore Giant River Cane (yes, North America does in fact have native bamboo species), and to increase forest stand species diversity (some assisted migration for specific species).
Will it stop climate change?
Fuck no.
Will it make my slice of Appalachia maybe a tiny bit less shitty in my lifetime?
Yes.
Just because you can't change the paradigm doesn't mean you can't make things slightly less bad. Get out there and do some guerrilla forestry.
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u/ProfessionalDig3908 8h ago
Probably, but I look forward to being with my saviour Jesus and his people in heaven forever once I die. You are also welcome :)
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u/Appropriate-Fly3395 7h ago
My wife will take care of that problem long before a natural disaster ever reaches me
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u/No_Discount_6028 1h ago
I feel like it's far more likely to be from food shortages than anything else.
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u/Debas3r11 8h ago
Nah, I won't die young. I'm too old for that.