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But all this is known. We’re all gonna be scrambling when we reach that point, spouting “We didn’t listen” like that episode of South Park about this very issue.

That's the thing though, we, the we being your average human on the planet, are put in a position to have very little power to do anything about it. In America specifically (not so sure about the rest of the world) you're kept busy trying to manage your health insurance (if you have it), your retirement fund (if you have it), your job (that may or may not have unpaid on call), your home (maintaining and cleaning your home/apartment/townhouse, trying to do repairs yourself because you can't afford to pay for others to do it as prices for service/repair work have skyrocketed), your food (it is too expensive to even buy fast food anymore so you gotta cook to save money), your car (gotta own a vehicle as the US doesn't have meaningful public transport, gotta make sure it is insured, maintained, etc.), your bills (gotta juggle those credit card and points cards and discount cards to get the best deals on every purchase!), if you have children, then you have to manage all the facets of their lives as well including making their food, cleaning up after them, taking them to/from school and other extracurriculars, deal with any school system issues, and on and on.

By the end of the week, you just want to have five minutes to catch your breath, but you can't, because you only (maybe) have two days off of work and those will be spent catching up on whatever chores you didn't get done during the week.

Democratic governance was meant so that we could vote people into office to manage the governance, but now that is so bloated and broken, we also have to collectively stay on top of our nation, state, county, city's issues so we can be aware and try and "fight" back whenever we can with a letter or a council meeting. Never going to have time to go to a protest or skip out of work for a week to protest with your work/dollar because living paycheck-to-paycheck with no safety net means you're homeless if one thing fucks up.

The whole system (again, in the US at least) is designed to keep one so busy that one doesn't even know their way out of the week, let alone to take individual action to collectively organize and kick these politicians and corporations in the teeth for destroying the human habitability of the planet.

Meh, im sure the rich fucks have contingencies for themselves, so it's all good.

Yes. Die after everyone else does when they finally figure out that there’s nothing left to live for, money doesn’t mean shit if you’re king of a dead world.

No one is safe including the rich.

The biggest major effect that global warming will have in the next few years or about 20 to 30 years is ... mass migration. Once that starts in earnest, countries will be breaking out in conflicts everywhere. We aren't cooperating with ourselves within our established borders now, what do you think will happen when millions of people start moving around to avoid the heat and more natural disasters.

Everyone will suffer .... the only thing the rich buy themselves is time because we are all headed to the same global environmental apocalypse.

I feel good that I'm middle aged now because I will have lived my younger years when the world was doing relatively OK.

I feel bad for anyone born right now because they'll either see the beginning of the end or start surviving it.

Brought to you by the fine folks at Exxon-Mobile/Chevron/Shell/Texaco/BP

I was discussing that with my parents a few nights ago, they claim that I'm a pessimist because I don't want to bring children into this world but my hometown used to have about 5 snowdays a year, now is one every 5 years. The summer was hot but bearable and now the "heat dome" is a normal thing every year, and even when it rains it's usually catastrophic with large hail and flooding

They've always been a thing in Texas. The difference is now it moves around and the rest of you get to experience the miserable heat as well.

First one I personally remember was 2003 in Europe.

Spooked me for a moment

The residents of Texas are not completely to blame. Texas has the highest rates of voter suppression in the country. Secondly, the Texas education system has been built in a way to persist the current leadership in the state. And finally, many of the people live in poverty and will likely die for what oil execs and politicians have done.

Wishing this is short sighted and is blaming the symptom and not the root cause problem.

Let's not joke about this, people will likely die, and not the people you're mad at.

As someone from Texas who isn't a climate denier, fuck off.

Also we're having severe thunderstorms nearly daily... I am not ready for the rebound of heat that's about to come.

I think triple digits in US temperature is about as warm as a hamburger 100 seconds off the grill.

Planet will be fine, our ability to live on it not so much.