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This is a little pessimistic - there are still (non-loony) climate researchers who think that 2 C is achievable, but 2 C means that areas where over a billion people currently live will be functionally uninhabitable by the 2070's. The largest permanent migration in human history is kicking off now and will be in high gear by mid-to-late century. So we've still got time to plan, and there is still a set of outcomes where the global north accommodates the refugee population and humanity finds its niche in a considerably less diverse but still livable Earth, but the work necessary to make that happen needs to start now, preferably without additional lethal obstacle courses on the US-Mexico border. Anyways I'm still contributing to my retirement fund but I frequently ask myself how much I'm going to need it.
Hate to break it to you, but that’s what the bourgeoisie want: the “natural solution” to culling a billion poorest people on the planet to solve the over-population problem who are competing for resources with them.
It's also incredibly contradictory considering those billions are also the ones they rely on to produce the most surplus value.
This is one reason I don't believe the depopulation theory people throw around. Now, I know many in the bourgeoisie do talk about overpopulation, and I'm certain many do believe in social darwinist claptrap; but this contradiction that you mentioned makes me think there's not really a unified effort by them to do it.
I think it's as simple as: doing something about climate change now would jeopardize their short term profits, and whatever happens in 2050 or 2070 won't affect them personally.
Low income countries are planning how to survive, at least. Here? It will be like how we did the war on terror in the Sahel. They may try to protect important areas from the disasters while they lay waste to the populace at best
It's always been and always will be socialism or barbarism.
I think even compradors adapting to post-Covid or what ppl call bonapartist military leaders will fare better. Degrees of barbarism 🤣