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In reply to the discussion: Frankly, the world as we know it is going away, soon. [View all]Warpy
(114,590 posts)as barely arable land near the equator becomes desert. Weakened by starvation, they'll become more susceptible to disease and we all know disease travels fast these days.
Stingy first worlders will see their own resources dwindling as food crops fail and first animal protein and then vegetable protein start to skyrocket in price. They will increasingly dole out things like health care according to wealth status even in countries with national health insurance, making sure disease takes hold universally, even among people who aren't starving yet.
Predictions that the human population will be down by a third within the next century are optimistic, IMO. It won't start here but it is going to be very ugly.
And it's not the CO2 any more. It's the methane the warming from the CO2 is liberating from sea beds and permafrost areas. The CO2 made us sweat. The methane will cook us.