[erkt]

Billions of people will not die from climate change, if anything they would simply not be born.

That is already happening in almost every western democracy as fertility rates have dropped precipitously. That is not because we have any food shortages: it’s because people are choosing not to have kids because life is so expensive.

[tfourb]

Europe now has hundreds of excess deaths from heat and hundreds of excess deaths from flooding due to events exacerbated or caused entirely by climate change most years. Africa likely already experiences tens of thousands of climate change related deaths each year, although attribution is tricky. Assuming that climate change and its effects are an exponentially escalating phenomenon, why would it be unthinkable that over the next 10/20/50/100 years the cumulative death toll of climate change will reach into the billions?

[HPsquared]

It's quite a leap of faith to extrapolate from hundreds up to billions, no?

[vixen99]

https://ourworldindata.org/part-one-how-many-people-die-from...

"Cold deaths vastly outnumber heat-related ones, but mostly due to “moderate” rather than extremely cold conditions."

[DonHopkins]

>people are choosing not to have kids because life is so expensive.

Finally a positive outcome of capitalism!

[lynx97]

Having children is subsidized where I come from. To a point where getting pregnant is a strategy to secure a form of UBI for certain low-income people. I think the reasons for lowered birth rates are much more hedonistic and less related to costs.