Climate change will inevitably stop being a hazy future concern and will someday turn everyday life upside down. At the risk of causing counterproductive doomism, I offer observations and speculations on how the planetary crisis may play out. 1/25 yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/when...
Intensifying extreme weather events and an insurance crisis are likely to cause significant economic and political disruption in the U.S. sometime in the next 15 years.
Like John Wesley Powell's 1st Grand Canyon expedition, we're in an ever-deepening chasm of climate change impacts, forced to run a perilous course through dangerous rapids of unknown ferocity. Our path is fraught with great peril. 2/25
Much disagree with 1.5C as cat 1 hurricane. Bc of incompatible hard and soft infrastructure. Soft= national & global social politics: It took 6mo for a VOLUNTARY donor group to merely MEET when Pakistan's monster monsoon had the climate minister dispair: "You're sleepwalking into annihilation!"
I really dislike the whole "doomer" concept. It's counterproductive. People aren't going to change their opinion by calling them names. It's just a rhetorical trick to dismiss people. Republicans use a similar technique when they call people socialists or communists.
Excellent article. The collapse of insurance protection & property values is the most obvious failure. However, the resulting financial slump will swiftly be overtaken by the collapse of wider commercial markets - as citizens end all of their discretionary spending and concentrate on food & shelter.
