fuck
"The Tubbs Fire, as it was called, shouldn’t have been possible. Coffey Park is surrounded not by vegetation but by concrete and malls and freeways. So insurers had rated it as “basically zero risk,” according to Kevin Van Leer, then a risk modeler from the global insurance liability firm Risk Management Solutions. (He now does similar work for Cape Analytics.) But Van Leer, who had spent seven years picking through the debris left by disasters to understand how insurers could anticipate — and price — the risk of their happening again, had begun to see other “impossible” fires. After a 2016 fire tornado ripped through northern Canada and a firestorm consumed Gatlinburg, Tennessee, he said, “alarm bells started going off” for the insurance industry."
Just end me now, this is clearly the dumbest timeline.
This entire article is well written and researched, but it's also insanely depressing as it strives to qualify every minute piece of the impending climate apocalypse as "Investment opportunity", "Return On Investment", "Risk", "A new real estate boom" etc. etc.
Normalizing our way to extinction while we wait for the market to "adjust".
Fascinating maps and the chart breaking down factors by county is really useful if you want to compare how fucked various areas are
I live in the Midwest and I'm already envisioning how bloody and ruthless the fight for resources is going to be. This article tried very hard to sanitize future events, but to think that mass displacements combined with resource shortage is going to end in anything less than a lot of bloodshed is naive.
upper midwest will be a relatively pleasant area, sit tight and maybe you'll get to be a refugee labor overseer
Remember that NHTSA report from a couple of years ago? That shit was sobering. Yeah, the conclusion reached in the report was very much what you'd expect from rank capitalists, but the science behind it was largely on point.
Nothing short of a full blown revolution is going to change the course of 6-8° warming by the end of the century. 3-4° is drastic to begin with, and it seems guaranteed at this point, even if climate targets are met. Everything being proposed now is just about minimizing the damage, and not without handwringing about what taking the necessary steps will do to the economy in the short term.
NHTSA . The report states that curbing fuel emissions would have minimal effect on global temps reached by 2100. Of course the assumption was skewed by the fact that the study assumed that no action would be taken in other areas. The conclusion is that we're fucked, so we might as well keep the machine running until the planet decides to wipe humans out.
Action could be taken to keep warming at 3-4°F by 2100, as per the guidelines that the IPCC has set out, but the issue with that is, and it goes back to the earlier point, is that these measures needed to be drastic since years ago, and globally we're still not where we need to be. The types of changes required would cause a massive amount of economic upheaval, and the ghouls are not about to let their short term interests wither away due to some weather inconvenience. You can already see this with Joe Biden flip flopping on fracking, and having advisers that have their own self interests in natural gas and such. If I'm not mistaken, Biden's proposed plans aren't even up to par, and we aren't even taking into account how much those plans will be stripped to accommodate conservatives.