Backlash wrote:
Tang wrote:
the growing number of authoritarian leaders worlwide is very worrying, specially in this age of nuclear weapons and apocalyptic climate change, something could go wrong very easily and i'd rather not think about the consequences
Luckily, total war is bad for commerce, so nukes likely won't play a role in a real-life apocalypse. Climate change is very, very troublesome however. The time for immediate action was... about twenty years ago, now. It's rather telling that this is an expert's best-case scenario for a world just four degrees warmer on average.
Try saying that to the world leaders about where to go no matter what model it shows in the near distant future, they won't even budge about their national immigration policies and would refuse to let anyone flee from climate change, whether they abide by Parisian Climate Accords or not. Even try saying that to the extremely rich they just would not care.
On top of that, I bet that some of our most popular crops like bread, beer, coffee, most forms of livestock and almost all fish due to increased acidity in the oceans are already at risk long before this. The sea levels would have already claimed some low-lying areas by then, including where the Internet sits on, in a vulnerable area. If nukes are not going to be used, then we still have to deal with space weather, in particular another Carrington event from our sun or another big rogue asteroid. Even a very slight change of what happens to Earth can definitely mess up our communications and societal order, especially the lengthy heat waves, increased tidal surge height, and stronger storms.
In fact, some countries e.g. Norway and China right now are not abiding the Climate Accords in secret, proven that treaties like this cannot be fully trusted. We had opted out already from the get-go since Trump's inauguration, and others might eventually follow suit, so there might be an anti-eco-revolution coming in case we are not "going green" in unison fast enough, meaning we all have to act Orwellian to do Paris' bidding. That is not going to happen; we are slowly turning into Venus 2.0.
