re: #177 freetoken

AGW is too slow for people to really do anything about it. And young people have lived too little to take any notice of changes.

The latest research indicates it’s happening much faster than previously predicted, and people’s wallets will get hit hard as a result of this season’s crop failures. Give it another 10 years or so, and we’ll see a drought so horrid the US will be forced to end corn exports. And more cities in the South/Southwest will run right out of water.

This is why I keep telling you you’re wrong about the human race being unable to drive itself to extinction. Unless something dramatic changes, it will:

Ever so slowly is is a very relative term. Since the 50’s phytoplankton is down in concentration by over 50% for example…here is your most plausible near term extinction scenario.

Coasts flood, displacing millions as breadbaskets simultaneously turn to dust bowls. Disease vectors spread to new populations killing people and surviving crops alike. Fresh water supplies dry up in regions that depend on melt water creating even more desperate, malnourished refugees…

People start killing each other over what is left.

Nukes get used.

The end.