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What is going to happen when people realize the true consequences of climate change?

I often wonder how the general population will react when they truly realize the impacts of climate change. I’d imagine there could be three reactions:

  • Apathy, as in completely shutting down
  • Panic, as in severe mental breakdown
  • Action, protesting etc

Now that I think of it these are the fight, flight, freeze reactions. Any thoughts?

Smokeydope , (edited )
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Adapt and put serious pressure on reform. Its important to remember Corporations and governments aren’t evil, they’re self interested just like the human beings that made and run them. They will be much more willing to make drastic change when the impacts of climate change knocks on their door and starts affecting their bottom line. Its hard to make a profit or collect taxes when everyone is either dead or revolting and that’s all they really care about.

Let’s not ignore the fact that there is some progress. The ozone is slowly healing last I saw. Carbon emission checks are decently enforced. The general population is taking climat e change more seriously compared to the al gore days, and most developed countries are moving towards cleaner renewable energy as it makes more economic sense.

Hot take but many climate advocates tend to be hyperbolic and reactionary doomsday worshippers who think this timeline is the worst possible. There were people 20 years ago saying we should all be under the ocean or in a complete hellscape by now. Guess what, the planet has been through a lot worse than us and both it and life in general Is a little more resilient than what fearmongers might think. Things aren’t great right now, but but they aren’t beyond hope either.

In case I sound likr aclimate denying right winger, I do my part to cut down on my personal emissions. I live off solar power completely, I make sure all my clothing and cloth is hemp, and I don’t drive unless its really needed. I take farmers baths more often than showers to cut down on water usage. I try to buy used things. I burn a clean fuel for heating my shelter. That’s probably more thought and effort than most people on Lemmy whining about the environment. Yeah its mostly corporations doing the emissions but we as individuals arent faultless either. The corpos wouldn’t existing we didn’t constantly desire convinence and trinkets.

dope ,

People believe what they’re told. Our department of truth will whip up good explanations right up to the point that you burn/drown/starve.

Borkingheck ,

One of the real issues that people will see the immediate impacts of is increased migration. People will not be able to live in coastal areas, Pacific Islands or near the equator.

It’s already happened in S.America with convoys of people on foot trying to get to better places but the spin has always been these are illegals and nothing more.

willis936 ,
  1. Lots of wars and refugee crises.
  2. Almost certainly unilateral moves by middle-sized nations seeing existential crises to inject albedo-altering aerosols into the stratosphere.
  3. Depending on the timing of things in the next few decades we may be in an ice age very quickly from ice cap melt acceleration cooling the ocean. In an ice age the amount of arable land would dramatically decrease and if there is a harvest season at all it will be very short. Nearly everyone would starve.
CodexArcanum ,

For the vast majority of (American) people, their reaction to the true realization of climate change is going to be one of:

  1. gurgle, gulp, drowning noises
  2. ah, oh no, gunshots, silence
  3. so hot today, ugh, sound of body hitting ground, silence
  4. "That fire isn’t so close yet!" burning sounds, screaming, silence
whofearsthenight ,

Or as we call it in America, Tuesday. It’s already here, people don’t realize it. People already have acclimated to “wildfire season,” for example, a thing that didn’t exist until the last 5 years or so in this area, as a totally normal occurrence.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
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Gotta remind myself I grew up in a doomsday cult and most people didn’t have go bags in their garage their entire childhood.

Ultraviolet ,

Don’t forget starvation, that’s a big one. Climate change hits your food supply before it hits you.

afraid_of_zombies ,

We already do where I work since we do a bunch of infrastructure work. It is simple enough, keep dealing with it. Size motors bigger so they can deal with heat, add cooling to control systems, waterproof sensors because of flooding. Just going to keep dealing with a hotter wetter world.

cashews_best_nut ,

Europeans will migrate to the highest point in Europe - Switzerland. You guys are literally Europe’s lifeboat.

Damage ,

Highest point in Europe is the Mont Blanc peak, between France and Italy

cashews_best_nut ,

We’re coming to Switzerland.

Commiunism ,

Probably a lot of people are going to be like “why didn’t anyone do anything about this???”, completely forgetting that’s happening right now, with likely the same people being climate deniers.

Rocky60 ,

Line from Unforgiven

Kid, “He had it coming, didn’t he?”

Muny, “We’ve all got it coming, kid”

IntrepidIceIgloo ,

Consequences are happening now, cat 5 hurricane hit Acapulco Mexico and destroyed the city.

ricdeh ,
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Well don’t forget that humanity always has one last trump, and that is geo-engineering. At the moment, that is deemed too dangerous and the current effects of climate change do not yet justify it, but eventually, the large-scale modification of our atmosphere might be a method employed to offset the greenhouse gas impact.

ricdeh ,
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Many people have already given up, which is a very common sentiment here on Lemmy. They’re waiting for “humanity to die”. Personally, I find such helplessness and indifference to human life and civilisation appalling. In the end, our species will do much better without such people, so I am considering them legitimate casualties of climate change. I will not miss them.

Something_Complex ,

I would agree with you if it wasn’t for the fact that your said: indifference

It’s not indifference, it’s just being able to see things how they are and still be able to bounce forward and keep on fighting for what you want. Even though you know you can’t survive probably.

DrQuint ,

People will just slowly move to northerner places. When those get back, they’ll move again. Lots of borders will close. There will be some wars over the likes of Siberia but they won’t last.

Eventually people will run out of places to go too up norther, and they’ll just deny the existence of an issue.

bradorsomething ,

Well billions of people will die, but not likely the ones reading this. The ones reading this will quietly keep the others from getting where we’re kept safer.

Emperor ,
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People will slip from denial to acceptance because, by the time the vast majority of people realise it’s as bad as the scientists have been saying, it’ll be far too late to do anything other than scramble for the last rocketship off the planet.

Hobo , (edited )

To where? Like where you gonna go that is more suitable than where we already are? You gonna rocketship your ass to Mars? Cause even with global warming earth is still more hospitable than a rocky desert with no oxygen. A bigass bank account with lots of zeros isn’t gonna keep anyone out of the we’re collectively fucked line. Sure it might get you a spot at the back of the line, but we’re all getting in it together no matter who you are.

perviouslyiner ,

To New Zealand, apparently: “New Zealand, Iceland, the UK, Tasmania and Ireland are the places best suited to survive a global collapse of society, according to a study”

Sarm_8 ,
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I guarantee we’ll all be underwater before you can get to us

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