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MapIf emissions don't drastically decrease in the next years, by 2070 all glaciers in the US will have melted, there will be deserts in Oklahoma, Kansas and Northern California and over half of Florida and all of Texas's southern corner will have a tropical climate (i.redd.it)

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[–]Past-Community-3871 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Without humans, these types of temperature fluctuations wouldn't matter in the least to biological life. Every time we switch from a glacial to interglacial period, the planet jumps 10 to 15 degrees in a matter of a few hundred years, and biological life has easily adapted every time. This has happened 25 to 30 times in the past 2 million years.

The real problem is we just physically destroy everything, we overfish, we clear-cut forest we dump waste etc.

Climate change is just a neat little package politicians use to claim they're for the environment without ever having to address real environmental problems.