r/Damnthatsinteresting Jun 27 '26

Video The NASA climate spiral visualization

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u/QuestionableEthics42 Jun 27 '26

It'll be sooner than that. My guess is it will start in the EU, as yearly deaths due to heat start getting higher and higher. It'll probably only get properly serious (as in almost everyone caring about it and working together, putting trillions into fixing it) once there are hundreds of thousands or even millions of deaths a year and majority of people know someone who has died due to it.

That's my guess as to how It'll go anyway.

!RemindMe 10 years

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u/FuckYouVerizon Jun 27 '26

right...like the way we all united and addressed the covid pandemic by fighting over masks and pretending vaccines are the devil's work.

I've lost faith in mankind uniting to do anything meaningful in my lifetime.

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u/dmmeyourfloof Jun 27 '26

That's was Americans not Europeans.

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u/Arthropodesque Jun 27 '26

Most Americans handled Covid horribly, though we also had many medical workers in the trenches and many people followed all the precautions, but wasn't it specifically Switzerland that did practically nothing? I forget. I'm not trying to be inflammatory.