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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 04:07:50 JST Ars Technica

   Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°

   Study tracks the past costs of climate events and projects them into the future.

   https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/climate-damages-by-2050-will-be-6-times-the-cost-of-limiting-warming-to-2/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • phi1997 (phi1997@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 05:26:47 JST phi1997

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     @arstechnica
     The correct course of action is obvious if you're capable of thinking beyond the next quarter

   • brenna 🇧🇲🇺🇸 (brennx0r@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 05:51:24 JST brenna 🇧🇲🇺🇸

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     “the areas with the highest costs tend to have the lowest cumulative emissions. In other words, the problems are felt most keenly in the countries that made the smallest contributions to them.”

     I deeply feel this. Back in my home country of Bermuda, the ecosystem is already experiencing disrepair. It’s entirely possible that it will be nearly all underwater by 2050. And yet the wheels of late stage capitalism continue to turn there with the “all in” surrounding crypto/fintech.

   • enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 09:04:05 JST enoch_exe_inc

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     @arstechnica The number I’ve used for years to represent the “worse case” scenario is six degrees, as in “by the end of this century, average global temperatures will have risen by six degrees since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution”. I call it the worst case because it’s where we’d be if we did nothing about climate change.

     I did not take into account that people would actively make it worse. It is now a distinct possibility that all civilisation would collapse this century.

   • #_#JohnOConnor#_# (johnoconnor333@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 17:55:41 JST #_#JohnOConnor#_#

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     @arstechnica the ones eating steaks lunch and dinner, driving big diesel SUVs and heating their houses like a tropical beach during the winter do not give a damn. Most of them will be de dead by 2050 but I know them I try to speak with them everyday, their answer? They don't give a damn, they just want to enjoy.