>If that happens, there seems very little chance that society could survive
This statement here, while it seems correct I don't think is backed up by the article. Does anyone know of any good work examining the impact climate change will have on human society? I know there are going to be some serious problems but would like see an expert break it down.
That's a fair point. I did start digging into the climate-change impacts literature to qualify this some bit more, but frankly it became a bit overwhelming, both in the number of articles which you need to try and summarise, and the emotional strain reading the impacts places on you. I think an interesting article would be looking at what might survive 4-5 degrees of warming. But in this article I wanted to avoid turning people off reading by simply listing all the bad things that may happen, and allow a focus on the psychology.
I'm not sure this is what you're looking for, but "6 Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet" by Mark Lynas[1] is his attempt to summarize what the climate-change research says will happen. It's organized into sections corresponding to degrees centigrade of warming. It's from 2007 though, and there's a lot that's changed since then.
There's also [2], a website which attempts to do the same as "6 Degrees" in an abbreviated format.
This statement here, while it seems correct I don't think is backed up by the article. Does anyone know of any good work examining the impact climate change will have on human society? I know there are going to be some serious problems but would like see an expert break it down.
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