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   16 min
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   https://youtu.be/1fbauE0tfyE

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     It's a very good example pointing to what's likely to happen with the climate crisis, even if the specific mechanisms are different.

     As the planet overall warms, arable regions will shift to higher latitudes with less arable land, leading to increased famine and migration. We have already seen in Sudan how this translates to war--expect it on a global scale. And as people move, pandemics will become more common.

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     *Hypothesis: The #CimateCrisis" will lead to the breakdown of "civilized" society within this century on a global scale"

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     Excellent points.

     Presently, Earth only has to cope with 20 million migrants each year. 1)

     It is easy to see, how this will add up to the 300mn to 2 bn. the #UN estimates.2)

     These 200 mn. in justone decade is under *current* climate conditions. It does neither account...
     @LevZadov

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     ... for the #Climate #TippingPoints, nor the likely possibility that even now, #ClimateChange is possibly still accelerating!3)

     There are no borders, apart from, maybe, the oceans, that can stem that torrent significanly.

     Only if humanity were to apply extreme measures for #CO2 (, equivalents) reductions do I see a chance for...

     3)
     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113438040342008067

     2)
     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/115158158841163281

     1) https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/115816899748824771 @benfell @GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     ...this not happening, which it isn't, except for some countries, like #Norway and #China, to some degree.

     Now that thanks to #Trump the #US are back on track for #Ecocide by #BigOil 4) and #BigTech's energy frenzy due the proliferation of #AI #datacenters 5) 6), the...

     4) #BigOilKnew: https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110680669265721701

     5) The #Ressurection and further of communal #Minoan, #Roman, and #Andean #WaterManagement practices and techniques should have been rolled...

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     ...out globally
     (where feasible) since the 1990's.

     👉s/: I have read my share of sci-fy novels, but I seriously doubt that new #Technogies like an #Escape to and #Terraforming of #Mars or other extrasolar planets, holding bodies in #CryoStasis, or the #Uploading 8) of peoples memories will have developed enough in time for the #Billionaires to escape the #ClimateBreakdown👈.

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     NOTES:

     6) Thanks to #China, the third business vertical guilty of #Ecocide is...

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     ...the #Automotive industry, which pushed the ecocidal #CombustionEngine for at least 30 years longer than was ecologically sensible and #Technologically feasible, because it remained highly profitable.

     Also, after the first #GreenRevolution 7), #Agriculture set on #MassProduction of crops instead of water-reduction of farming on a global scale. (https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109972629386382918)

     7) #GreenRevolution:
     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112047724725803354

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     "WTF? How China pushed the automotive combustion industry?"

     No, OFC not, quite the opposite. --#China is *ending* the West's "century" of dominating the #CarIndustry by innovating more quickly and having almost a monopoly regarding rare earths.

     (I had a lot of problems with the length of my post, thks 2 #Mastodon, and lost the remaining part of the sentence by copying, shortening, and pasting from one app to another.)

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     WTF? How China pushed the automotive combustion industry?

     Did you know that Ford BURNT the blueprints and data of an electric car?

     Stop blaming China for what the American Oligarchs are doing the last 200 years.

     🤬🤬🤬

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     I think I have now improved the ambiguity of the sentence, thx again for pointing this out.