You misunderstand population momentum. While fertility rates are rapidly declining, the global population still increases, and is projected to peak at ~10-11B people around 2100 (up from ~8B today). India will surpass China in total population around 2027, while already experiencing wet bulb temperatures beyond what the human body can survive.
Wet bulb temperatures are about as relevant as hypothermia temperatures. We just invented the technology for heating long before air conditioning so uninformed people like to trot it out like it’s some relevant barrier where people will die in mass.
They will just move to colder climates or generate some electricity to use air conditioning.
Global expert on heat stress indicates wet bulb temperatures are relevant as recently as August of 2023. Please feel free to share data your assertion is based on, and how you’re going to relocate or provide AC for billions of people in the developing world.
How did people in Europe and North America avoid dying from the cold?
I’m not saying it’s not a problem people need to deal with. I’m saying it’s a problem there is already a solution for.
Elderly people die in temperatures down in 90F as well. For some reason it’s considered acceptable to “chalk it up to climate” when we allow that to happen but we go to pretty great lengths to provide shelters to prevent people from freezing to death in completely inhospitable places like New York, Detroit, Minneapolis, etc.
Billions of people in the developing world will need food and water. They will also need shelter. News at 10
> but I just don't see what can be done about it.
Agreed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2305427120
https://archive.today/9sYS8