According to a United Nations climate report released last week, the world must cut its carbon emissions drastically by 2020 or face an increase in global temperature of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit or more by the end of the century. Here’s how global warming will affect daily life if major action is not taken:
- Ignoring dire UN reports on climate change will take twice as much effort
- Constant nightly excitement of hearing about which species went extinct that day
- Increased use of broken air conditioners as major plot devices in movies
- Canteen contents replaced with sand
- Casual summer flings may turn into serious long-term relationships
- Most of day spent daydreaming about vacation to beautiful, temperate Winnipeg
- There will only be one or two more James Bonds, tops
- Perpetual enjoyable sense of smug “told-you-so” satisfaction over former climate change skeptics as you each claw at each other over precious matchbooks and the discarded plastic items now used as currency
- Not at all if you time your death just right
I might add a couple for the economists:
- We finally get to calibrate our model forecasts against reality
- Non-economists criticize us for not effectively arguing the potential benefits of a carbon tax (or cap-and-trade)
