Posted on 06/03/2021 6:44:08 AM PDT by SJackson
Thanks Obama
If we don’t start to take urgent action to prevent the worst impacts of climate change today, then we may experience the end of our species within a century, former President Barack Obama said in a new interview.
Obama made the argument in a wide-ranging chat, on The New York Times‘ podcast The Ezra Klein Show, that also broached partisan politics, racial justice, the impacts of his presidency, and even UFOs. Specifically, Klein asked Obama what he thought we, as a society, would be judged the most harshly for in the year 2121, making the topic of climate inaction a pretty reasonable topic to bring up.
Big If
“Well, if we don’t get a handle on climate change, then if there’s anybody around to judge us, they’ll judge us pretty harshly on it, because the data is here,” Obama replied. “We know it. And we have the tools to make real progress with it.”
Obama was likely exaggerating for effect — even the most alarming predictions for the future of humanity suggest that climate-related extinction wouldn’t happen that close to the present, though some predict societal breakdown even sooner.
True Story
But Obama’s not exaggerating by much. The dangers of climate change are already claiming a horrifying number of human lives, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change that linked about 37 percent of heat-related deaths in certain cities between 1991 and 2018 to human-caused temperature increases.
The United Nations recently concluded that human-caused climate change puts a million species at risk of imminent extinction, and ecosystems are already being reshaped as various organisms either die off or flee — putting humanity itself in a very precarious position for the future.
The Great Man is also a Great Thinker. I’m awestruck.
They’re lashing out it seems.
As the idocracy advances that final generation won’t be smart enough to realize it.
No one ever died of heat before??
How much thought can an extinct human think?
Why did the liar buy a home near the beach in Massachusetts, then?
https://www.homesandgardens.com/news/president-obama-new-house-marthas-vineyard
He fancies himself to be a prophet.
Hey Lord Obama, what are Saturday’s lottery numbers gonna be?
end of the world prophecy PING
Worst US President, ever, including Jimmy Carter
>>The United Nations recently concluded that human-caused climate change puts a million species at risk of imminent extinction, and ecosystems are already being reshaped as various organisms either die off or flee
is there any organism that THRIVES because the ecosystems are being reshaped?
Maybe we'll be fortunate enough for things to warm up as much as they did during the Medieval Warm Period (900's to 1300's).
Ditto: that.
Is this like dead people voting?
Dorkbama, STFU.
There not words in the multiverse which could come close to expressing the depths of your stupidity.
Get your uneducated *ss back to Hawaii and do the only thing matched to your abilities - selling ice cream.
Long before a hundred years the term “obama” will be firmly entrenched as slang for “crap”.
Aw, he’s gotta be putting me on...
People are evil. I honestly don’t care if we go extinct.
I judge the Magic Negro pretty harshly.
I can’t decide if these people are this deranged, stupid or if they’re just shameless liars who will gleefully exploit the stupidity, gullibility of others to reach their political ends.
Considering Obama bought at $20M home ON THE WATER IN MARTHA’S VINYARD and not in Denver, CO, I’m guessing he’s really not all that concerned with ‘seal level rise.’
Just a hunch.
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