If you haven’t yet, I suggest reading ‘The Ministry for the Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s quite a realistic and sobering take on the near future that is to come, and how we could have a chance at turning things around. The entire plot starts with a heatwave.
Still waiting for something like Kali’s Children to emerge…
a few years I got satellite data and calculated the wet bulb temperature of everywhere. some places already experience wet bulb temps of over 60°C. it’s only going to get worse.
imagine a heatwave that will kill everyone who cant manage cooling themselves.
I think it would take an incident that kills a bunch of people that effect global economies for anyone care.
Everyone dies in a small Vietnamese town that makes t-shirts on the cheap. It wouldn’t be the people that died that would matter, it would be the stop of cheap production. If the work can be moved elsewhere, their deaths are unimportant.
The world is a meat grinder for the rich and powerful. Eventually most of us will die because of it, the trajectory has been that way for so long. We did stop the hole in the ozone, but only because we developed technology to reduce factories producing CO2 not because we were willing to turn them off.
CO2 didn’t cause the hole in the ozone. It was CFCs. And it wasn’t any huge endeavor to get rid of them because we already had relatively cheap, readily available alternatives. CO2 was harder to get away from for a long time, but there’s less and less excuse these days.
Yeah I get my global pollutants mixed up.
There’s so many to choose from, can’t blame ya.
that won’t even make the news, the real consequences will be mass refugee crisis, and the press will ignore the reason, that we made their countries uninhabitable.