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hi guys, i'm a physics phd student. my research has nothing to do with climate change, but i just wanted to establish some sort of credibility. How do you all feel about the world on the brink of apocalypse? war over water... salt water mixing in the great lakes... death of insects, ecosystems, agriculture... increased rate of bacterial mutations...

in 30 years... most of us will be dead, right?

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>>10603589
>salt water mixing in the Great Lakes

COME AND TAKE IT YOU FUCKING BITCH. Us Michiganders will royally fuck your asshole hard, so fuck off and stop messing with us. Michigan is the greatest goddamn state in the USofFuckinA!

>> No.10603615

>>10603608
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Areas_of_Concern

I DONT UNDERSTAND YOUR COMMENT. READ THIS and then collect yourself and comment again when you are ready to contribute.

>> No.10603725

>pol baiting pol pretending not to be pol

>> No.10603726

>>10603589
OP, take a minute to read all the utter unscientific trash that all turned out to be lies about the world ending -- from the disco era. Isaac Asimov was a smart cookie and he got taken in by it.
The world is not going to "end." What had happened was people wanted certain laws passed but couldn't persuade anyone (probably because these were dumb laws), so they made up this awful threat, that can only be averted if we -- permit China to massively pollute. That's their actual proposal. Apparently we don't share an atmosphere with them.

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>>10603615
I fuckin read it cunt. Previous post still stands 100% erect. God bless the great state of MICHIGAN

>> No.10603770

>>10603589
fellow physics phd student here, it will suck a lot for many people but all that means is that I have to pass the filter into the good life just like I passed grad school admissions

>> No.10603777

>>10603589

Natural Resource Management scientist here.

Short answer: Things will just, on average, get incrementally worse over a long span of time. The quality of the environment, and with it the quality of life for humans, measured in economic as well as aesthetic terms, will diminish generation by generation.

This "apocalypse" is happening and it is irreversible, this climate change fad is just the icing on the cake. There was lots of other stuff happening many decades ago which we knew about and ignored to all practical purposes. It is all real and we are fucked. But from a human rather than geological perspective it is more of a whimper than a bang. The full effects will take place over centuries not decades.

Sure, this immediate period will be punctuated by an increase of local disasters, including wars, more species extinction, weather events an other natural catastrophes, but these will be very local in effect, and offset to some extent by increasingly desperate but ultimately futile human interventions. In many places life will continue as normal with changes so small that the difference will only be noticeable by generational comparison. Much will depend on where you live. Chances are you and your children will still live out wholesome suburban lives.