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Personally, I’m excited to see what kind of biomes end up emerging on a melting/melted Antartica.
Well ok, even I’m not pessimistic enough to think I’ll live to see that, in a way that its dramatically different than it is now, but hey, its like uh… a subbranch of speculative evolution, sorta.
Maybe in a 100-200 years we have enough glacial loss and icemelt that West Antarctica might have parts where actual soil is regularly facing the sun.
I think this is a ‘what if all the ice was gone’ map:
Probably 100% cow pastures.
How exactly were the names “East Antarctica” and “West Antarctica” in that map decided? What does “East” and “West” mean at the South Pole?
Unless you stand perfectly at the south pr perfectly at the north point of either pole, there will always be an east and a west.
Same as now. European influence.
I googled it:
Image Source: Wikipedia
Anything between lines of longitude 0° - 180° (0° is britain GMT, 180° is opposite side of earth) is EAST.
Anything between 180° to 0 (you can think of as 360°) is WEST.
Thus you have a western hemisphere, which i guess is just tthe americas and british Isles, and an eastern hemisphere, which i guess is most of afroeurasia and australia. This is just about the only way it could’ve worked, but as for where 0 and 180 went, it’s just arbitrary.
I would’ve defined the Levant as the boundary between east and west hemisphere, instead.
Fun Fact
Eastern Antarctica’s ice sheet is older and more well developed than western antarctica. It will probably take longer to melt or collapse than the western half.
Source: Discovering Antarctica
Collapsible bonus image + source
The killing off of the majority of the human race is an unrequited plus in my book!
This is one of those beliefs that can lead to a slippery slope. Yes, from an empirical perspective it needs to happen. But are we okay with how it’s likely to happen? Because the path we’re on has the honest and humble proletariat taking the brunt of the blow while the elite lap up the freshly available assets.
Any attempt to alter that trajectory will probably lead to the same tribalistic and knee-jerk violence that breeds authoritarianism and racism and will not further the progressive cause of coexistence.
So no matter what happens, we’ll likely end up in the same place a few hundred years later.
Or maybe I’m wrong?
“Most of us” is not “all of us”. Humanity will survive and the survivors will adapt.
Nothing but positivity here.
Always the poor, disabled, marginalised, chronically ill, non first world, will be hit the hardest and die at the highest rates.
My professional advice is to not be any of those things when shit hits the fan.
Tries to wish lifelong chronic illness away
have you tried not being sad?
Damn it how could I forget that 🤦. I’m now magically cured. Thanks ;)
Have tried being a millionair? That seems to make problems go away quite easily.
Yeah I would still be ill but it would be “oh that sucks and I can afford it” not “my survival is constantly on the line”.
I prefer being a millionearth since I walk to places.
you know what has been really funny all my life. laughing at the rich people in the hospital.
oh wait, i’m not that much of a dick. money doesn’t keep them from being sick, strangely enough.
Money does buy access to a lot better treatments, though.
sometimes yes sometimes no. sometimes they throw amazing treatments at you for free if you are willing to be in a trial and money can’t get you into those. trust me, i have tried to bribe my way into a few with money i didn’t have, and once the best connections in the world couldn’t get me in
Those dumbasses build their houses right on the beach, they will ultimately be hit very hard by climate change.
When it comes to climate change I’m not sure. We on the poorer side of the world already live in a constant crisis and adaptation and drastically changing our way to live might not hit us as hard as for people in first world countries who are used to a high dependence on industry and globalization. In fact, we’re already slowly adapting without most people even noticing.
100% but what you neglect to mention is the poorer world already has far higher mortality rates. This will only make it worse.
I tend to agree that developped countries tend to underestimate the fragility of their systems. But then there still are simple facts like if you spend 10% of your income on food, you can afford significant food price hikes. If you spend 70% of income on food, then a small rise is already lethal.
True, but on the other hand, if international trade diminishes, we’re on the food production side. The places who depend on imports will be hit much harder.
we also tend to have some sort of stockpiles, like the fucking american cheese reserve
The majority of other species wont survive or adapt though. And all because of something we caused. It’s not only humans sharing this Earth, even though a lot of us sure acts as if that is the case.
