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I don't think we're past all the climate tipping points; that'd start to cause runaway changes. Swift action right now would still provide a chance to lessen the impact.
The worst case scenarios would be truly disastrous though, and would cause secondary human conflicts due to unavailability of basic resources.
90% of earths top soil is at risk of depletion by 2050
Fresh water demand globally will exceed supply by 40% by 2030
We're not surviving the century.
Might be sooner. That article is from 2023, that was before the rush of all these new data centers, who all needs billions of gallons of water a day to operate.
I've not found any updates on these statistics yet, but when I do I'll be using them instead.
People need to understand how fucked we are.