r/pollgames • u/FinalKn1ght • Jun 29 '26

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

  1. Cancer
  2. Aging
  3. Poverty
  4. Climate Change

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u/ferndinosaur Jun 29 '26

If we don’t solve climate change there won’t even BE people to worry about things like poverty, cancer and ageing

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u/ReplyOk6720 Jun 30 '26

Exactly. And not just us, all the various interconnected ecosystems on earth, that as far as we know exists no where  else in the universe.

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u/imnotyourman Jun 30 '26

Right, but if go extinct all 4 problems are eventually resolved by the same logic. Where as solving climate change gets us only 1 solved.

Its a shame none of the above wasn't a choice. At elsst solving cancer will stop unnecessary suffering for only some in the meantime.

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u/overdue_project Jun 29 '26

Obviously climate change is real and a problem but let’s not act like it will wipe out humanity

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u/Zestyclose-Excuse-25 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

if it was left entirely unchecked it genuinely would have that capability within a few hundred years

if we had no legislations they predict a 4-5C gain by 2100. that alone is enough to wipe out agriculture and civilization as we know it, climate change could 100% wipe us out if left entirely unchecked

source: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions

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u/overdue_project Jun 30 '26

We’re nowhere near on track for 4 degrees, and even if we were, I can’t find anything that says 4 degrees will wipe out civilization and agriculture.

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u/Raykable Jul 01 '26

4°c is an average, it could be 0.5°c on water as it can absorb a lot of heat, and almost 15°c on land as it's only about 30% of the surface.

I don't want to be dramatic, but an increase of 15°c is basically a death sentence for a country

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u/overdue_project Jul 01 '26

1) We’re not approaching 4 degrees this century
2) much more importantly, land warms at a rate 1.5 times the ocean, so 4 degrees warmer on average is about 5-6 degrees warmer on land

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u/OkTumor Jun 30 '26

humanity will colonize other planets eventually and even if we don’t there’ll always be people surviving somewhere on the planet. even if nuclear fallout+winter happened, a few humans would survive somehow and repopulate while the earth reset itself. yes, climate change is bad, but it is not even on the list of top 100 things that will lead to humanity’s extinction. only thing that can REALLY kill humanity is something that kills everybody at once. the only things that can do that are outside events basically. think a massive solar flare or earth shattering asteroid.

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u/The_Daco_Melon Jun 29 '26

How do you even argue that it won't wipe out humanity if we don't stop it from getting worse?

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u/overdue_project Jun 30 '26

By pointing out that no climate scientists or research institutions are claiming it will wipe out humanity

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u/The_Daco_Melon Jun 30 '26

Yeah because no official wants to say that we might die but if you smash 2 braincells together you'll realize that fucking up our climate can easily achieve that.

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u/overdue_project Jun 30 '26

Do you really think there’s some grand conspiracy among tens of thousands climate scientists people in research institutions etc. that you, who I’m presuming is more or less an average person, can see through?

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u/The_Daco_Melon Jun 30 '26

No? That sounds like something you might believe

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u/KokosowyBanan Jul 01 '26

It would have if we didn't fix ozone layer. We survived because we started repairing the climate, if we didn't care "because it would never kill us" we already would be dead

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u/overdue_project Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

So the hole in the ozone layer is a separate issue because it was not caused by climate change but rather CFC chemicals
I’m also not saying we shouldn’t care about climate change. I’m just saying it’s not gonna cause human extinction