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jape5y ago
**The amount of current warming is causing and will cause further extreme weather disruptions (Flooding, fires, heat, etc) that will destabilise society and lead to a collapse of our modern civilisation.**
- Society isn't moving fast enough in its reduction of CO2 emissions to keep warming to 1.5ºC.
- We are currently on track for warming of 3ºC.
- Current warming of 1.2ºC is proving much more dangerous and extreme than imagined.
- Crop failure (From heat & drought, and extreme storms and floods) will cause food prices to go up, and famine and hunger, which will lead to civil unrest and migration.
- Sea level rise will make many costal cities unliveable and cause migration that will put enormous pressure on the communities receiving refugees.
- Forest fires are putting many cities at risk, and causing air quality issues for people across large parts of the world.
- More extreme storms (Rain, Wind, Flooding, etc.) will destroy critical infrastructure and make it more and more difficult for society to respond to the crisis.
- A 1972 MIT study looked at many of these factors and predicted the collapse of modern society. [A recent review of the study suggested all of these factors are on track.](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/gaya-herrington-mit-study-the-limits-to-growth)
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dr1414y ago
Liberals (democrats) will cause the destruction of the world by causing a greater cataclysmic than the Russian and Chinese when they went to communism because they want communism on a world wide scale. The damage will be catastrophic no matter which side wins, and the re-education camps if the liberals win will be awful.
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