Kurzgesagt always frames political issues in market terms like cost and investment. Their channel only really exists to to make neoliberals feel better about the dystopia they've created.
dozens of billionaires could be forced to summer in new zealand :thonk-cri:
My original response to Kurzgesagt's comment (which is still somewhere down below) was auto-deleted by youtube. I'm reposting the original exchange here. YouTube keeps auto-deleting EVEN MY OWN COMMENTS on my channel.
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Kurzed gatz was crying in the comments "actually I'm a small business owner and I listed sources."
I only saw the first 20 minutes or so of this empanada video, but it feels like Kurzgesagt is saying that only the people in developing countries will get fucked, so. you guys don't have to worry. Showed a dead african elephant to highlight "some ecosystems" collapsing, and specifically used the word "developing countries" to explain what would happen when the temperature increases.
So it makes sense that they talked about the monetary/economic imapct and not the lost lives.
Another world remains possible, the specter of communism still looms large over the world.
And until then, we build the framework required to survive that long.
tbh this video is cope.
It's cope because it wrongly implies that the global north will be "sorta ok" other than some extreme weather events (most people don't really fear these), and that the only consequence of this will be gunning down Brown people
The reality is that the mass migrations will be so huge, and from so many places, that it's PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for Europe to defend against all of them.
North africa has 250M people. It is guaranteed to dry up
Southern Europe + Turkey has 150M people. Also guaranteed to dry uppretend Equatorial Africa + Central Asia + India + the rest of the Mideast doesn't even exist. Europe still has an INTERNAL REFUGEE CRISIS of 150M people coming from Spain and Turkey, and an external refugee wave of somewhere near 250M coming from Maghreb.
In 2021, US Border Patrol had only 1.6 MILLION encounters with illegal migrants from the Mexican border. And it still can't catch all of these guys.
Now add the migrants from an African population of 1000 million, the rest of the Middle East (400 million), Central Asia (72 million), and India (1300 million). The majority of these people will be migrating in mostly northern directions.
Heatwaves are making life without AC impossible, those people will migrate first. Then they'll make agriculture impossible, and even the middle class will start migrating.
Now think about the internal violence that's gonna start when mayofash start gunning down actual non-white euro citizens because they look like refugees.
Oh yea and none of this even takes into account China + SEA, which will absolutely expand into Siberia and maybe even Alaska
The idea that "Europe is just gonna kill them all" is abject fascist fantasy, and it's kinda funny that badempanada is for whatever reason promoting it. "Hey, we gunned down 2 people last year, we can totally do 2000"
The idea that “Europe is just gonna kill them all” is abject fascist fantasy
They may not succeed but they will certainly try.
Nuke the right mountain passes and water supplies and anything is possible.
The British navy will be shooting the boats and the British people will be like "Welp we met our paris agreements not our fault!"
Our ruling class have this shit all planned out. It's impressively evil and forward-thinking to be honest.
The British navy will be shooting the boats
They will not be shooting down all the boats from Morocco, Spain, Portugal, sunken Netherlands, etc.
There's just gonna be too many.Oh yeah, this also ignores the fact that the European population pyramid is basically inverted. The migrants are gonna be mostly young, and Europe is gonna have to draft far older, less fit people into the army
there's also the fact that most euro homes don't have AC. so even if the rise in temp is less catastrophic for them, it's still very disruptive and will kill many people.
It's also just facts that the highly unpredictable nature of weather events is going to also impact the global north as well. The idea that large waves of people moving up north are going to be gunned down in some form of grotesque northern solidarity doesn't really seem all that plausible to me when it's more likely that the global north is going to be imploding from within due to climate upheaval as well.
what? I've heard of some of empanadas bad takes, what's up w this
If I ever actually wore Kurzgeagt "birb" merch, I'd have to give myself a wedgie.
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