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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Yeah, maybe you should look a little harder?
Wait until crops start dying en masse due to higher temperatures, too many bad insects, too few good insects, no more water.
Wait until you get your 50 degree celcius Summers, which apparently already started in select countries this year.
Wait until forest fires become so big that they simply can't be controlled anymore and start burning down entire cities
Wait until drinkable water runs out due to us emptying all aquefiers, wells, etc.
Wait until water, food, etc scarcity due to climate change starts the bigger wars over the scraps that are left
You won't have to wait long, we're working hard on making these features a reality soon.
I'm not sure what will kill the most people, but I pity those that survive
I'm looking for factual peer reviewed research. Do you have a source such as a academic paper or journal?
I haven't seen anything to suggest that billions will die. That seems very far fetched to me.
It's important to remember that science is inherently conservative and doubly so for climate change Erring on the Side of Least Drama.
If you read any of the IPCC reports you'll note they are very careful to not really provide any death estimates or anything. However, one can attempt to extrapolate a risk model from those descriptions from that we can analyze key takeaways from the WG2 report ^1^
Based on the existential risk model, that's 3.3 billion currently facing some level of existential risks. If the impacts remain "at the high end of previous estimates", which they very likely will, then that's >3.3 Billion potential deaths.
^1: using Wikipedia summary because the report is 3675 pages long and ain't nobody got time for that^
Let's try a new game, the burden of proof is on you, as you're the one saying we are all somehow being dramatic. So, go fetch us some credited peer reveiwed papers from the past 5 years that say we are being dramatic...