S Barlow
https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1755602205766463914?s=19When those such as @RogerHallamCS21 have warned that billions could die, he's been widely attacked for misrepresenting the science.
So what does the science actually say? Well nothing really, there is no realistic science about this. No one is actually studying it.
How will our system, our civilization, respond to those climate and ecological shocks, and how will it change the human system's ability to support and sustain the current population?
Absolutely no one knows or is attempting to research that. Not even enough to make a guess.
Things like the 2008 financial crash, demonstrate just how vulnerable our system is to in-built wobbles, let alone major changes and shocks to our system, from things such as climate change, ecosystems and biodiversity decline, parameters which wholly sustain our economy.
What we need to understand is that our present system, is a system, totally reliant on lots of underlying processes, and that any change to these underlying processes, parameters, would profoundly change our whole civilization.
Climate, and ecological shocks, will profoundly change how our system operates, our political systems, our governance, our economy, the financial system, and our societies i.e. our people and their attitudes. Nothing will be unchanged, and all will be radically altered.
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To be clear about this, climate science doesn't study the stability of our civilization, to climate shocks.
Yes, climate science, looks into sea level rise, extreme weather, future climates, but this tells us nothing about the state of our civilization, in response to this.
So if a climate scientist assures you it will not be catastrophic, they are not offering any sort of scientific opinion, because they've never studied the impacts on our societies and civilization, and how they'll respond to these shocks. They're just personal opinions.