Steve Taylor
1 min readNov 11, 2021

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Extreme poverty is likely to stagnate going into 2030. We seemed to have hit a plateau as these people work themselves to death supporting our capitalistic consumerism. Most of these people were subsistence farmers and now they are consumers working crappy jobs in manufacturing. Not sure it was a step up for many of them.

"The projections suggest that over the coming decade the stagnation at the bottom will become very clear. The majority of the world’s poorest today live in economies that are not growing and half a billion face the prospect to remain stuck in extreme poverty."

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

Just leave the problem to the next generation because that's what we do. The rate of sea level rise is accelerating and not staying at a constant 1/8" a year. It could rise as much as 8 feet in 80 years.

"Based on their new scenarios, global sea level is very likely to rise at least 12 inches (0.3 meters) above 2000 levels by 2100 even on a low-emissions pathway. On future pathways with the highest greenhouse gas emissions, sea level rise could be as high as 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) above 2000 levels by 2100."

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level

But you probably don't believe in any of this so I don't know why I bother.

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Steve Taylor
Steve Taylor

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