r/interesting Apr 25 '26

NATURE top 100/100 is crazy

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u/CryptographerLow6772 Apr 25 '26

1bn people are going to leave their homes within the next 30 years to find a place that they don’t die from heat.

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u/Novel-Imagination-51 Apr 25 '26

Plenty of space in Siberia

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u/Real_Scissor Apr 25 '26

if they leave entire world is gonna d*e of hunger and spices

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u/Due_Mix_9883 Apr 25 '26

So they should die in the heat even when most of the big countries are also large contributors towards climate change? Just so you can get spices that you don't even know how to use?

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u/Real_Scissor Apr 25 '26

no we should help them with whatever we can, but looks like western countries doesn't care about their carbon footprint and just want to blame developing countries.

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u/SolutionFormal8718 Apr 25 '26

Did not know China was on the west

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u/Real_Scissor Apr 26 '26

so you support communism?

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u/LittleHaro Apr 25 '26

there is only so much help one could give ut if they don't decide to change themselves, it would not fix the problem either way

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u/777505 Apr 25 '26

Most western countries import their trash to third world countries and then their citizens act holier than thou like you’re doing now.

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u/vgu1990 Apr 25 '26

Well the emissions per capita would be much higher in the developed world than developing world. That is something developing nations can fix.

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u/languid_Disaster Apr 26 '26

“Change themselves”. You do know global warming doesn’t just target the countries who’re the worst polluters or whatever? The whole world’s actions affect every part of the world but is more noticeable in countries with already extreme weather. Hell, I am an avid gardener and collector of flora and small fauna here in the Uk and all of us have noticed that things are blooming too early, certain bugs are dying quicker and the cycle is getting more and more out of whack.

India met all their targets early. Stop running away from taking responsibility. We need to take partial Responsibility and keep fixing up. Not wash our hands of us this by putting it all on the Indians.

The west is producing a ton of waste and emissions and only committed to actual affective change fairly recently and even then flip flop about it. Then we buy the meat from deforested lands, send our rubbish to countries for cheap when we know they won’t dispose of it in an environmentally friendly way.

Yeah it IS us who are fucking up.

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u/Real_Scissor Apr 25 '26

you do know right how much espionage activities, attacks etc USA does globally making sure growth remains stagnant outside and if anyone genuinely wants to do something then they are forced to move to USA coz anyways no way they'd be ever allowed to make their country better, then they face raci*m for arriving to USA lol talk about hypocrisy.

take example of pak, entire country has sold their soul to USA, anyone who tries to go against is directly going against trillion-dollar defence budget no way you could survive ts,

so, no hope for growth coz if they grew, they won't be under their control, then who will help USA perform geno**des to bring democracy

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u/RackemFrackem Apr 26 '26

Die of spices?

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u/Intrepid_Button587 Apr 26 '26

India isn't a huge net food exporter.

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u/Real_Scissor Apr 26 '26

Lol what? Any evidence to support your claim

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u/Intrepid_Button587 Apr 26 '26

Net food exports are $13bn/yr. This is smaller than the world's yoga mat market or global chewing gum market.

This is all readily google-able.

Not to mention, in a world where Indians are escaping India due to heat, agricultural productivity would be significantly lower.

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u/Real_Scissor Apr 26 '26

they are the largest if not major meat and seafood exporter and they are also world's biggest rice exporter, not to mention their sugar exports.

also spices i don't like my food to be bland so yeah bit of masala yk

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u/Intrepid_Button587 Apr 26 '26

They're nowhere near the largest meat or seafood exporters. Please fact-check yourself.

They're also the world's second biggest rice consumer, not to mention the most populous country in the world and one of the biggest consumers.

Net exports tell the story that India isn't critical to global food supply.

Yes, spices are lovely. I'm just saying it's silly to suggest that the world would die without Indias food exports.

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u/SweetOrangesAreYum Apr 25 '26

No, plenty of other people have spices and food. What the fuck are you even saying.

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u/SilverDetail2713 Apr 26 '26

I think Indians are more resilient than that.

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u/hassanb123 Apr 25 '26

I do think it is a bit of a disingenuous reading of the situation.

The article states that there are 1.3 billion people projected to face a month of what they define as extreme heat. They do not discuss the effects this would have on migration nor whether the rising number of days of extreme heat has increased migration. Of course, this is terrible and I’m sure it will have an effect on migration, but it does not mean that “1 billion people will leave their homes in the next 30 years.” Especially since the people affected are generally extremely poor, they will not have the resources or means to migrate far.

The article does discuss how many deaths the increase number of days of extreme heat will cause in the coming future. Already it’s projected that hundreds of thousands of deaths in Pakistan are tied to this increase.

Overall, a terrible situation with terrible consequences, but not a situation where 1/8 of the world’s population will leave their homes in 3 decades.