>>11068619The warming isn't the issue. The destabilization of current climate conditions is. We have very specific resources in place to combat specific disasters. If areas that only ever worried about tornadoes get flooded that's a problem. If areas expeting hurricanes get droughts that is a problem. etc. etc. These things will stack up and absolutely wreck economies all over the world as billions of unprepared people have to readapt and our infrastructure has to be retrofitted for disasters that might not evne be the same in 5 years.
This isn't even going into the ocean acidifcation killing off shit loads of marine ecosystems and plankton. Plankton use calcium carbonate as their "shells". If these are destroyed the plankton dies. As the oceans acidify due to increased carbon dioxide the amount of killed plankton increases. Plankton are the majority producer of oxygen and consumer of carbon dioxide on the planet.
This isn't even getting into the rampent plastic, pharmaceutical, industrial, and oil waste being shunted into everything and mucking shit up.
We can surivive if we fucking destroy the planet. But it will not be easy, it will not be comfortable, it will not be healthy, and we may never recover the world as it was. Life will go on, but it will not be life that humans are comfortable dealing with. I don't want to have to go backwards ten steps instead of waiting a couple minutes to take the right next couple steps.
