For about 2% of the world’s amphibian species, it’s already getting too hot to survive in their natural habitats, according to a new study in Nature. If the planet keeps warming unchecked, this number is expected to jump to 7.5% by the end of the century.
Then I suppose I’m a doomerist? Is that a word? In the next 100 years it’s going to become too hot to live for a billion people, the seas are going to displace a billion, and food won’t grow because we destroyed the soil and crops die from drought. A perfect recipe for some mega disasters that some people believe they can avoid using their wealth. And that’s using the low estimate for planet temperature increase due to just what humans have caused. The planet will be just fine. The people are fucked. And I feel awful we’re taking so many beautiful species with us.
I could say, I do share your anxiety about what will happen in the near future. Still, personally, I don’t like doomerism because imo it restricts our collective imagination towards solutions.
Apart from that, lets keep in mind that this is an article about amphibians specifically, not about saving the planet or humans in general.
We don’t need imaginative solutions, we already have the answers.
This is an open-book test and we continue to fail.
The answers are out there, but one problem is that we - the people - expect that those in power will implement them, and they don’t.
So, we need imaginative solutions, in order for these fixes to be implemented.
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