The environment looks fine when you look at it through the lens of a fiscal quarter!

It won’t fare well for most of us once habitable regions are flooded with climate refugees whose entire life savings and livelihoods have been wiped out.

But that doesn’t matter as long as profits are up in the short term, and it especially doesn’t matter to the handful of people who have hoarded enough resources to last them the next thousand years. They have bunkers and yachts and stuff. They’ll be fine, and they’re the ones deciding policy for the rest of us. Maybe they can make reality television where the rest of us fight hunger games style.

On a totally unrelated note, I’ve heard humans taste like pork.

The economy is expected to stall, shrink and be wiped out the warmer it gets. Insurances disappear, and with that loans and other financial instruments. Production and supply chain issues make things increasingly unviable. Basics like food take an the money. With business as usual, that's within decades as far as I could find. They're playing only short term.

We only know of one rock in all existence that's habitable to humans or literally anything else. Relative to humans, yeah life finds a way cuz it's a lot more resilient than us; relative to the kinds of extremes the universe of capable of producing, life is SUPER fragile.

So... yes, humans are fucked, but so are a lot of other critters, and who knows where all the feedback loops we've unleashed will end after we're gone. Shit isn't going to just magically get better once we're gone.

Hopefully it'll stabilize, but there comes a point that even the most hardy of extremophiles can't survive, and if we cross that line, Earth becomes indistinguishable from every other lifeless rock in space.

The Atlantic current is going to collapse soon though. Which will drop temperatures in Northern Europe. Everything from about Germany up on that coastline is going to to get colder.

So while it certainly isn't going to be like the movie, it is going to create a colder area.

Rich people are old and are accustomed to only looking at the upcoming quarter. The environment is perfectly fine for the upcoming quarter, and probably their remaining lives.

I was talking to a (not wealthy) friend about his move to a southern coastal area for retirement with respect to climate change, who said similar. It should be fine for his remaining life. He also admitted that since he didn’t have kids, he has no reason to plan for the future beyond his own existence. He doesn’t care that his home will be underwater in a few decades as long as it is not until after he’s gone

The super rich all have bunkers with enough supplies to last them and their friends a lifetime. It's not a coincidence Elon owns a tunneling company.

Their wealth will easily carry them through whatever hardships that happen in their lifetime. After their lifetime, they don't give a flying fuck what happens.

To achieve that, we must decommission all existing fossil fuel powered machinery, from power plants, to manufacturing, transportation, and agricultural equipment, and replace them with net zero emission alternatives.

By 2030? Not going to happen, then.

That means we need to come up with a different "right" action in the meantime. We shouldn't be relying on a dream scenario that has basically no chance of actually coming to pass.

F I hope? C is extremely hot, K is extremely cold.