The Futurology Thread

I was thinking about how gloval Covid response might be a good indicator to see how the world might respond to climate change. The official death toll is about 5m but epidemiologists thing the true death toll is somewhere around 20m. We are hopefully half way through this pandemic and there is a good chance things get less severe from here but we can't take that for granted. Minimising transmission is still crucial for trying to reduce the number of mutations and reduce the chance of a really nasty variant cropping up. We should be minimising transmission, investing in healthcare and education globally and trying to reduce the number of immune compromised people in the world not receiving treatment (a common soure of mutations).

So what has happened? Most of the world has declared it over. Too hard to solve. The rich nations tried hard for a few years but then decided its too hard and accepted that the long term health implications of the virus are acceptable and that the best thing to do is nothing, and wait for it to pass.

I know that we already know for sure that the human race is bungling the early stages of climate change, but I think the global response to Covid gives us an idea of what we can expect in terms of a response when the climate shit really hits the fan.

1) Fuck the poor people, lets close the doors and keep our own safe.
2) This is costing the rich too much money, everybody needs to get back to work
3) Its hard to solve...let nature find a way!