Rainbow Warrior
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

“ Yet in this last 20 years temperatures have barely budged.”

Yeah bullshit. Countries in Africa (I’m South African btw) are experiencing some of the worst droughts ever — we’re currently going through one right now that’s been going on for nearly five years — and heat waves are on the rise. Just because your little bubble doesn’t seem to ever change doesn’t mean the rest of the world is the same.

“Temperatures have varied quite a bit but generally speaking we know that life has generally gotten better with warmer temperatures.”

Again, this may be fine and dandy for people like you who live in mostly-temperate zones but for people like us who live in an already-hot climate shit is going to get a lot, lot worse. We’re already running dangerously low on fresh water supplies because of the droughts mentioned above and as was mentioned in the article, the rise in temperatures lead to a rise in disease-carrying insects like mosquitoes (which for a continent already plagued by diseases like malaria is a pretty big deal).

So yeah global climate change is going to screw a whole lot of people over — mostly the poor who were already suffering to begin with — but hey the 1% who have a vested interest in maintaining economic dependence on fossil fuels said it was all a conspiracy so who gives a shit, right?

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