https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2022/08/24/post-collapse-computing-1/
"The climate crisis is no longer a thing future generations will one day have
to deal with, like we were told as kids. It’s here, affecting all of us today,
including in the global north. Some of the people travelling to this year’s
Berlin Mini GUADEC were delayed by the massive heatwave, because train tracks
on the way could not handle the heat.
There are already a number of unavoidable horrible consequences on the horizon.
These include areas around the equator where the combination of temperature and
humidity is deadly for humans for parts of the year, crop failures causing ever
larger famines, conflicts around resources such as water, and general
infrastructure breakdown caused by a combination of ever more extreme weather
events and decreasing capacity to deal with them.
Second-order consequences will include billions of people having to flee to
less affected areas, which in turn will have almost unimaginable political
consequences – If 5 million refugees from the Syrian civil war caused a
Europe-wide resurgence in proto-fascist parties, what will 100 million or more
do?
And that’s not the worst of it."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
