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Hopefully the demise of our species will be quick and relatively painless, then.



It will be bloody and violent and probably the single largest amount of human suffering from a single event in the short history of our civilization.

While it is an oversimplified game, Fate of the World can help show how increasing temperatures puts more energy into global systems resulting in intense storms, droughts, flooding, wildfires, famines, etc, and how that destabilizes regions leading to less effective ability to implement anti-warming policy.




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