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u/19djafoij02 · 4 pointsr/geopolitics

SS: This is a video I've seen references to on reddit that discusses the geopolitical impacts of climate change. Refugee crises, food conflicts, etc. could increase significantly. It's over 1hr in length so I didn't watch all of it. Gwynne Dyer also wrote a book expounding on his interpretation of climate change. It tends to be pessimistic but it's an interesting worst-case scenario look at what climate change could do.

u/Sanpaku · 2 pointsr/politics

Check out the Gwynne Dyer book Climate Wars, his documentary for Canadian radio or the new film The Age of Consequences.

If we address issues people care about, they might listen.

u/DrTreeMan · 2 pointsr/Futurology

I'll refer you to the book "Climate Wars" by Gwynn Dyer. While he reviews the science of climate change at the beginning, most of the book is based on scenarios developed by the US military and interviews of high-ranking officers. Gwynn Dyer is a military historian, not an environmental writer.

I don't own the book, but as I recall he sourced most of the material in it.

u/wrongbanana · 2 pointsr/worldnews

The book "Climate Wars" by Gwynne Dwyer is a book I can't recommend enough for anyone wanting to get up to speed on what climate change really means for us and the wealth of knowledge that has accumulated over the years. He spent a year interviewing top scientists, policy makers, military and intelligence community members from around the world and asked them what they are aware of and what they are planning for. It is a very comprehensive book and Dwyer is a world renown investigative geopolitical reporter. The book is a bit dated (April 2011) but its still very relevant in synthesis and analysis and its interesting to read about thresholds he predicts we wont cross until 2020 or later that we have already crossed. He also concludes that the IPCC reports, which policy makers use as a guide, is unreliable for displaying and highlighting the realities of the situation for various reasons.

Doc Snow wrote a really great summary and review of the book with pictures that is quite comprehensive. I cannot recommend looking at this enough to all people and especially my fellow redditors who have the resources to not be in the dark. Knowledge is power.

Edit: Fixed link. Grammar and spelling.

u/FourChannel · 2 pointsr/news

> What else might happen that would be huge enough to bring us all together?

Climate change. A common problem. But we would have to view it as a shared task (and not the fault of this or that).

> And if for example global warming causes widespread drought, famine, and mass migration, leading to border skirmishes, terrorism and extremist leaders taking power, what would stop this situation from getting so out of hand that (for example) Pakistan doesn't nuke India for cutting off its access to a major river or the like?

That's actually a scenario in a book called Climate Wars by Gwynne Dyer.

> Talk me out of the idea that if things continue the way they are going, someone won't go so far as to use nukes. You mentioned hundreds of millions of people dying. Why wouldn't someone feel so provoked at some point that bombs get launched? Things are already getting bad faster than most projections had predicted they would.

Well, I'm not sure I can make the claim that they won't. We can hope that the leaders still use MAD as a deterrent. But to be honest, while I think I have an idea of how some of the future will play out, I do not have a pulse on this aspect of it.

But there are groups out there who are pushing for a truly advanced economic system that averts these problems, or can at least operate under such strain.

The problem that we face is our economic system, and our political system, are dogshit terrible at being efficient.

We can provide for everybody, even under climate strain, but it requires working together.

Dropping the notion of countries would be a start. Thinking of the entire planet as one society would go quite a ways to prevent tribal mentality.

The Zeitgeist Movement is currently in the education stage of their plan. That is, to inform as many people as possible, as wide a group as they can reach, that the fact that people are starving and hungry today is because of our shitty economic system.

And the problem is, the vast majority of people have only ever known this system, and are completely convinced that this is the best we can do.

And when they think this is the best we can do, they are convincing themselves it's necessary to wipe out parts to leave enough for the rest of us.

We will lose some parts of the world, we will have to evacuate. But we can feed 100 times more people with the same amount of water using vertical farming, than regular open air farming.

Our system is primed to waste as much as possible and be as inefficient and ineffective as possible because you get rewarded for the more solutions you can sell.

If we could change our farming methods to be 100 times more efficient, for the same cost in water...

What about computing technology ? What about building housing for all humans ? What about building transportation ? What about medical facilities all over the world ? And for free ?

What else are we short on because it's expensive, that we could have plenty of if we changed the way we think ?

So...

Here's a short series called Culture In Decline, EP 6

Basically it depicts two futures. One if we stay on what we have. And one if we alter course now.

There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people actively working to alter course by bringing to everyone's attention that we can do so much better than this.

So to answer your question...

  • I can't tell you for sure how to avoid it, except to say, make it known that there's a fork in the road coming up. There is another option than desolate waste from our inefficient and wasteful system.
u/greengordon · 1 pointr/canada

Gwynne Dyer has also written some excellent stuff on climate change.

u/jlaux · 1 pointr/politics

Been reading Gwynne Dyer's Climate Wars lately, and it explains in more detail what Neil was talking about -- major refugee crisis, serious food shortages, even numerous major conflicts / war, as people fight for arable land. It's kind of frightening when you think about all the ripple effects this could have.