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climate change represents world-altering tragedy if unchecked, but not even in the worst-case scenario does it mean “literally everyone dies”

this, this, this, this, this, this, and like, 700 other sources will tell you that most of the effects of climate change will be reversible even if we pass the ‘threshold’ of a 1.5 degrees Celsius increase in global temperature

BUT. Even if the worst happens, it will be important to be doing things other than wallowing in misery???

I’m not trying to be callous but for people living today it’s wildly unlikely for the results to be “literally immediate death.”

People will get displaced from their homes by rising sea levels. We have like, years, probably decades, before that happens. It seems so fucked up to decide that we should do nothing, because we’ve already decided they’re going to die anyway????

If a bunch of us are going to die, why not die trying to help each other? Why not try to make sure fewer people die? Why not do something that might reduce someone’s suffering or give them food or clean water or a place to sleep?

-Priestess on a holy pilgrimage in the name of her great religion

-Noble warrior trying to regain his honour and discover the truth about the fall of his kingdom

-Thief caught red-handed by a shady aristocratic house and forced to steal back legendary artifacts to earn his freedom

-Vigilante seeking vengeance against the powerful crime lords that murdered her father

In the same game as:

-Girl who just wants to be filthy rich and will stab a bitch to get there

-Lady who’s pretty sure her friend got lost on his way home

-Socialist medicine man