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Globally, what is the major cause of famine? pests flood armed conflict ozone depletion drought9/21/2023 ![]() Ĭlimate apocalypse scenarios are explored in multiple science fiction works, in particular in climate fiction including The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, which depicts ecological breakdown through societal collapse American War by Omar El Akkad, which explores the idea of an underwater, war-stricken country or The Word for World is Forest by Ursula Le Guin that engages in space colonization to escape the conditions of Earth. For example, in September 2021 more than 200 scholarly medical journals published an emergency call for action, saying that a temperature increase of 1.5 degrees would bring catastrophic harm to global health from which the world will never recover. Many scientists have repeatedly warned about severe risks up to the level of what may described as "climate apocalypse". Many academics and researchers posit that in actuality, unless a major course correction is imminently implemented, some or all of the Earth will be rendered uninhabitable as a result of extreme temperatures, severe weather events, an inability to grow crops, and an altered composition of the Earth's atmosphere. ![]() San Francisco Youth Climate Strike - March 15, 2019.Ī climate apocalypse (also called a climate dystopia and a climate-induced collapse, among other names) generally denotes a predicted scenario involving the global collapse of human civilization and potential human extinction as either a direct or indirect result of anthropogenic climate change. Simplified conceptual causal loop diagram of cascading global climate failure Marchers holding a banner with the words "Youth vs Apocalypse". ![]() Scenario in which human civilization experiences catastrophic events due to climate change
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