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News & Current Events Apr 15, 2026 at 7:56 PM

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
the Guardian
Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
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TrumpetOfDeath Apr 15, 2026 +1463
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current (AMOC) is different than the Gulf Stream. The AMOC creates deep water in the North Atlantic, and is driven by temperature and salt. This current is at risk of collapsing with climate change. The Gulf Stream is a wind driven surface current in a subtropical gyre. It interacts with the AMOC and is intensified by it (when AMOC surface water sinks, it “pulls” the Gulf Stream to take its pace) but the Gulf Stream will continue to exist without the AMOC since they are fundamentally different types of currents. Just like the analogous Kuroshio Current exists without any deep water formation in the North Pacific. The collapse of AMOC will have consequences in heat transfer to Northern Europe in winter and precipitation patterns, but the Gulf Stream will continue to flow, since it is driven by winds (not salinity and temperature) albeit a bit weaker and perhaps shifted in latitude. Just wanted to clarify this since people too often conflate the AMOC with the Gulf Stream.
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East_Hedgehog6039 Apr 15, 2026 +248
And what does the AMOC collapsing do? I couldn’t figure it out from the article. Catastrophic flooding, presumably?
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kmosiman Apr 15, 2026 +608
Europe gets really really cold.
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MightyKrakyn Apr 16, 2026 +545
Not just that Europe gets really cold, warm water also won’t transfer away from the Caribbean at the same rate and it will heat up dramatically. It will just be a pocket of hot water and will create a dead zone
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jason2354 Apr 16, 2026 +184
Large areas of the east coast and gulf coast are considered to be dead zones currently if you look at a map.
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grackychan Apr 16, 2026 +38
Anyone who’s been to the Texas coast can attest to this lmao. Unbearable heat and humidity.
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French_O_Matic Apr 16, 2026 +7
it will become more deader.
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oldfarmjoy Apr 16, 2026 +82
How will the American east coast be affected?
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Soft_Database_3747 Apr 16, 2026 +193
More intense hurricanes
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sirchrisalot Apr 16, 2026 +117
C**** land on the coast
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Vallkyrie Apr 16, 2026 +65
Aquaman's market
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ba3toven Apr 16, 2026 +29
he's a great realtor although he touched my koi fish
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deliciousearlobes Apr 16, 2026 +2
You’re thinking of The Deep, not Aquaman.
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blackchameleongirl Apr 16, 2026 +53
Well, probably best to have some Maine lobster, because they're probably won't be any before to long.
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Strawbuddy Apr 16, 2026 +8
Uninsurable housing
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throwawaykayaker Apr 16, 2026 +2
Sea level rise by 50-100cm
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bailtail Apr 16, 2026 +2
Would it not also intensively hurricanes as those feed on heat in the ocean’s surface?
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East_Hedgehog6039 Apr 15, 2026 +34
Happy cake day! Thanks for the response. So, maybe not quite ice age but enough to destroy food production, energy sourcing, etc?
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funkiestj Apr 16, 2026 +172
If europe is getting colder then some place else is getting hotter. The europe getting colder is the obvious effect but it is hard to know how much it will change weather in other places. Our entire agricultural system is based on the idea of fairly stable weather patterns. \-- The good news is Trump's EPA says climate change is a hoax so I can ignore this article /s
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 16, 2026 +76
Best we can do is decommission weather satellites
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greenistheneworange Apr 16, 2026 +28
sadly this sounds like a real thing the would do.
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 16, 2026 +60
Because it is https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5453731/nasa-carbon-dioxide-satellite-mission-threatened#:~:text=The%20Trump%20administration%20has%20asked%20NASA%20employees%20to%20draw%20up,to%20the%20International%20Space%20Station.
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greenistheneworange Apr 16, 2026 +30
... and of course its
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neep_pie Apr 16, 2026 +20
Probably should end studies that have been going on for decades and fire hundreds of scientists
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 16, 2026 +10
Don't have to worry about climate change because I'm goin' up in the rapture!!
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neep_pie Apr 16, 2026 +11
Bible don't say nothin 'bout no climate change!!
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bluesam3 Apr 16, 2026 +10
In particular, the most obvious place that will get hotter will be the Atlantic hurricane-forming region, which means Atlantic hurricanes will get much worse.
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East_Hedgehog6039 Apr 16, 2026 +14
Thanks for the explanation. Yeah, chalk this one up to some more winning. But why does it matter? The people destroying the world will be dead. *cries in my children’s future*
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opal2120 Apr 16, 2026 +5
This is why I'm not having children.
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 16, 2026 +17
That's okay, we'll still have California to mass produce almonds and Arizona for alfalfa 
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Alismo_ Apr 16, 2026 +6
Currently sitting north of the artic circle in 10°C. Yeah if the AMOC dies we're cooked out here
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BeeonasG Apr 16, 2026 +7
Are we going to see something like The Day After Tomorrow?
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opal2120 Apr 16, 2026 +3
Lots of food shortages. Billionaires want us to continue growing the population so that they can die of starvation.
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porgy_tirebiter Apr 16, 2026 +7
Wouldn’t it also collapse the productivity of the North Sea? Maybe would be really bad for fish and whale populations. I don’t really know about this stuff, but maybe it’s also responsible for deep ocean oxygenation, which could potentially have very dire consequences if anoxic methanogenic bacteria thrive.
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kmosiman Apr 16, 2026 +17
........lots of bad things happen. Europe gets cold is the easy explanation.
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AngelsHero Apr 16, 2026 +10
Where’s scrat? EU needs to prepare for Ice age 2 electric boogaloo (I know there’s been more than one)
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Hans_the_Frisian Apr 16, 2026 +7
So how soon can we expect the ice age? Is it still worth it to beg my Landlord to install AC so i can sleep in the summer or should i rather ask to reinstall a wood fireplace in case the normal heating fails?
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Boulder_612 Apr 16, 2026 +11
The effects of this are already painfully obvious. The sporadic, unseasonal, and enduring heat waves are evidence of the complete breakdown of the jet streams, which carry cold air from the North Pole southward. BOE in 2026/27 will accelerate this. Good luck, folks.
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EkbatDeSabat Apr 16, 2026 +13
Can someone elaborate on "really really cold"? Are we talking 40s? 10s? -50s? That's F but it doesn't really matter.
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SuperSlimMilk Apr 16, 2026 +48
Think conservative estimates are 5-10C so yes 40F. London sits on the same latitude as Calgary so they better get used to some brutal winters
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KhausTO Apr 16, 2026 +10
And I'm guessing London doesn't get the benefit of a Chinook that will take it from -30 to +20 in two days in the middle of January. Nothing quite like like Frostbite -> T-shirt and Shorts -> Frostbite in the course of a regular working week😂
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jaymemaurice Apr 16, 2026 +4
There is a public park in London with palm trees. Despite being North of Calgary or Winterpeg. The ocean is directly responsible for this.
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Reasonable-Public796 Apr 16, 2026 +5
20 degrees summers would be a blessing in southern europe
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ion-deez-nuts Apr 16, 2026 +21
Paris is roughly the same latitude as Winnipeg, if that gives you an idea.
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mapped_apples Apr 16, 2026 +19
Their latitudes just in the UK for example, are several degrees higher than some of the coldest US states. For example, most northern US places top out around 46 degrees latitude and depending on location (inner continent or closer to water) can see temps in the -20 or colder range (Fahrenheit of course). 
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TrumpetOfDeath Apr 16, 2026 +81
Europe would get colder primarily in the winter due to Arctic air that would slip further south than it does currently. But there’s practically zero risk of this triggering an “ice age” because we’ve already loaded the atmosphere with enough warming greenhouse gases (ie carbon dioxide) to prevent that from happening. Sea level would rise locally in the North Atlantic. Biggest impact IMO would be changes to the atmospheric circulation that could alter where rainfall occurs over a large part of the northern hemisphere.
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JemmaP Apr 16, 2026 +40
Don't forget the collapse of the North Atlantic fishing industry, too. Maybe intensification of Atlantic hurricanes (that one I'd have to run some data on, but potentially hotter water in the Caribbean could be gnarly for the energy transfer).
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AllTearGasNoBreaks Apr 16, 2026 +21
Yay we fixed it with global warming!
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East_Hedgehog6039 Apr 16, 2026 +3
Thanks for this explanation! Really helpful
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Finngrove Apr 16, 2026 +16
It will destroy the climate of the lands like the east coast of the US and the UK because the temp of the ocean determines the ecosystem of the ocean as well as the temperature. For example the water and land of the Atlantic provinces of Canada are warmed by the current. If it gets colder the fishing stock departs, the climate becomes unable to grow its usual plantlife, etc etc.
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Coelachantiform Apr 16, 2026 +9
As someone living smack-dab on the arctic circle in northern Scandinavia, our ~8 months of cold and drab, will turn into ~10 months of even more cold and drab
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tpatmaho Apr 16, 2026 +8
You’ll be lucky to grow a turnip in Northern Europe. Scotland and Ireland ice over.
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Watsons-Butler Apr 16, 2026 +2
There was a movie. “The Day After Tomorrow”. Seemed idiotic at the time, but surprisingly more likely now. Like Idiocracy.
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kingrawer Apr 15, 2026 +18
>but it’s not as extreme of a doomsday scenario as the general public believes. [https://xkcd.com/2501/](https://xkcd.com/2501/)
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NlghtmanCometh Apr 15, 2026 +27
Well the last time it happened it triggered the Late Bronze Age collapse, cascading the planet into the closest thing to a legitimate apocalypse humanity has ever seen.
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TrumpetOfDeath Apr 15, 2026 +40
The Late Bronze Age collapse is not connected to any changes in the AMOC. Maybe you’re thinking of the Younger Dryas period ~12,000 years ago? Furthermore, there’s a legitimate debate about cause and effect… how much does the AMOC collapsing cause all these climatic impacts, versus climatic changes causing the AMOC to collapse.
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NlghtmanCometh Apr 16, 2026 +3
I am referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4.2-kiloyear_event?wprov=sfti1 The 4.2 kiloyear event is speculated to have been a major contributing factor to the collapse of several kingdoms of the ancient world. It was the worst drought in history, lasting nearly two centuries. The leading theory on the cause of the 4.2 kiloyear event is that the AMOC either weakened significantly during this time, or perhaps collapsed outright.
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AuroraFinem Apr 16, 2026 +33
“A bit weaker” is a bit of an understatement. It will be measurably weaker and a weaker gulf steam is noticeably bad for Western Europe and the south east US.
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TraditionalGap1 Apr 16, 2026 +9
Creates deep water? As in, there wouldn't be any deep water without it?
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TrumpetOfDeath Apr 16, 2026 +23
Without it the deep water that’s there becomes stagnant, reducing nutrient, carbon and oxygen transport to the deep
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FiftyShadesOfGregg Apr 15, 2026 +7
How stable is the Gulf Stream?
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sverdrup_sloth Apr 16, 2026 +3
As long as the Earth spins and the wind blows, it's not going anywhere. Western boundary currents like the Gulf Stream exist as a result of surface winds the conservation of vorticity (the rotation of a fluid). That said an AMOC weakening or shutdown would weaken the Gulf Stream a bit and perhaps also change its path at its northern extent.
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SuperRonnie2 Apr 16, 2026 +2
Will those winds continue though? I guess we can expect another European ice age then?
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TrumpetOfDeath Apr 16, 2026 +3
winds are caused by the difference in solar radiation and temperature between the equator and the poles, and fact that the Earth is spinning (ie Coriolis effect). In theory these winds could weaken with climate change decreasing the latitudinal temperature gradient, mostly because the poles will heat up faster than the equator. But I think the jury is still out on that, models say different things about future changes to surface winds (last I checked). However, there will always be some sort of temperature gradient causing winds to move ocean surface currents around. Europe potentially getting colder does not mean there will be an ice age. It would be getting colder air but this is happening on top global warming. With the amount of greenhouse gases/carbon we've already put into the atmosphere, we've ruled out causing temperatures to get low enough for the ice sheets to expand.
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Darth_Jinn Apr 15, 2026 +881
It's really sad that because of greed and apathy we've fucked up world so bad. We're leaving behind chaos and destruction for our children and their children.
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Horny4theEnvironment Apr 15, 2026 +175
You're only thinking of what's coming ahead. We also betrayed all the sacrifices of our ancestors to get here. They passed the baton for eons, keeping the species alive through war and famine, and we're the lazy fucks that let it drop and ended our unbroken lineage, taking countless different species along with us.
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composedofidiot Apr 16, 2026 +41
I'm sorry but our ancestors were the same kind of shortsighted arseholes that we can be. Living with a lot more nature and a lot less tech doesn't make us magically wise and at one with everything.
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RaisinZRH Apr 16, 2026 +79
Don’t kid yourself. They would have done the same if they had the tech. We’re bags of flesh that got lucky with a big brain, that’s it. Thinking our ancestors were so wise they wouldn’t do what we do today is foolish. Of course they didn’t damage the climate, they had no way to do it at the time.
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Reasonable-Public796 Apr 16, 2026 +27
Europea was once covered in forests, we cut them tree by tree thousands of years ago lol
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composedofidiot Apr 16, 2026 +14
We've already been changing and damaging the environment for thousands of years - and then called it the Anthropocene - the climate just needed more advanced tools
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The_Grungeican Apr 16, 2026 +3
they didn't have shareholders. [it's evolution baby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI)
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whiskeyrebellion Apr 15, 2026 +24
I, for one, think they have it coming.
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 15, 2026 +13
Think they'll put me in a elder home decades from now? I'll show them!
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fakehandslawyer Apr 15, 2026 +17
My kids can’t put me in a retirement home if we all die in the water wars, I think that should be a poster
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 15, 2026 +7
I can't wait to say "kids these days don't go outside enough" and *mean it*
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DadJokeBadJoke Apr 16, 2026 +2
> if we all die in the water wars Are we talking Waterworld or Mad Max?
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southernfirefly13 Apr 15, 2026 +135
Humanity deserves to go extinct. The planet is so giving and we mistreat it.
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Talentagentfriend Apr 15, 2026 +129
I disagree. Humanity doesn’t deserve it. Humanity is very easy to take advantage of by people in power. Those people in power deserve it. And anyone that is enabling them to destroy everything we have.
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Arctic_Chilean Apr 15, 2026 +48
Well turns out since the dawn of civilization we've always had that issue. No single civilization has managed to get around the issue of having masses ruled and eventually opressed by a powerful elite who's growing incompetence, greed, societal upheaval, entanglements in war eventually collapses them. Natural disasters and plagues are usually some of the catalysts to precipitate the collapse.   There's like a critical mass where if you have enough people under a governance system, they will eventually be destined to fall into this trap. 
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Avocados_number73 Apr 15, 2026 +51
Actually most of human history has not been like this. Hunter-gatherer societies, which existed for thousands and thousands of years, were largely cooperative, proto-communist, communal societies. It is possible to avoid environmental destruction, just not under capitalism. Because capitalism incentivizes its destruction.
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lizardtrench Apr 16, 2026 +8
I think you guys basically are the same thing, which actually raises a salient point. Hunter gatherer societies were on a pre-civilizational scale, with the low population helping to reinforce a cooperative communal system - everyone knows one another, everyone has a role to play, everyone is necessary to the function of the group, and the value of individual humans are, while not fully equal, highly levelized, as well as elevated. As civilization forms, that dynamic breaks down with the increase in population, which fosters inequality (as the value of any given individual plummets and makes possible high degrees of exploitation) and promotes systems like capitalism, that both begets and is fed by a large, ever growing population pool. We've evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to work best in communities of several dozen to maybe a couple hundred. So we're destined to shit the bed when there are this many of us. We may evolve to better deal with it, which will likely take hundreds of thousands of years more and multiple civilizational collapses. We can lower our population and/or fragment it into much smaller, mentally and socially healthier groups. Or we can just accept the current dysfunctional dynamic of a large, unwieldy civilization, an environment that we are fundamentally maladapted to.
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McCaber Apr 16, 2026 +12
Hunter gatherer societies hunted every macrofauna they could find to extinction so 🤷🏼‍♀️
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drevolut1on Apr 16, 2026 +6
And drastically altered landscapes as a result, including through use of fire. But scale is important to consider. It took them far longer to do these things. And the comment was in response to alternate forms of human governance being possible, not just environmental impacts. Capitalism--and an exponentially higher population that uses it as an economic system--permits destruction on a timeframe unthinkable to earlier civilizations and on a scale completely unsustainable for humanity.
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Ilikeyounott Apr 15, 2026 +26
We are kinda all enabling them to destroy everything, though, so... 
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chycity1 Apr 16, 2026 +2
So, humanity being taken advantage of by, humanity you might say?
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huxtiblejones Apr 16, 2026 +2
No rain drop is responsible for the flood, right? But this is a collective expression of humanity. In many cases, *voters* refuse to commit to the political solutions to climate change. People don't want to lose quality of life and are unwilling to make the necessary sacrifice to actually meaningfully address the problem.
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alliusis Apr 15, 2026 +40
Not true. Humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years as a part of the planet. There's been some bad shit but also examples of how we can live well, and humans can be stewards of nature and live with the planet. We've run into a severe infestation of kings and corruption though - power concentrated into the hands of a very few individuals - and apparently we've forgotten how to deal with them.  Ethical governments are great and needed for long-term organization, and government regulation can help to combat private interest... but it's slow (at least right now), and the individual humans in industry are actively trying to hinder it.  We just can't forget that governments aren't the *only* things that do work. You don't have to just vote and then sit back until you can next vote. Individual citizens can also choose to take action against those individuals who are abusing their power and resources for selfish, personal, harmful gain. And honestly looking at history I don't think there's been a single transfer of power or gain of rights without a fight/v.
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Talentagentfriend Apr 15, 2026 +17
Humanity is still in its infancy in relation to the rest of the universe. A mere couple of thousand of years amounts to nothing when compared to how old everything else in outer space is. I think we’re in the middle of a maturity phase. One where history isn’t going to define how we move forward. The world in its majority has been at peace. We have many conflicting ways of thinking how to deal with conflicts because we know that in the modern age not everything can be dealt with in one way. We have entire ideological wars going on through technology, propaganda, money, etc. And all of this stuff affects the real world. It’s difficult to consider these larger than life concepts compared to conflicts even 40-50 years ago. The world is even much more connected than it ever has been. People have access to more information than they have been. Physical might makes right imo is not the only way to approach change imo. Concepts like public pressure, investigations, spreading knowledge, etc are just as important. Power is still in the many.
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SudoDarkKnight Apr 15, 2026 +19
Such a dumb take . F*** the billions of innocents because of the 1% that seek greed and sow destruction. Seriously brain-dead
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Talentagentfriend Apr 16, 2026 +6
A lot of people lack critical thinking skills. It’s why you’ll so often see people making these broad blanket statements. It often means they don’t know how to communicate what is happening so they’ll make it a binary option and choose one.
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WickedFrags Apr 15, 2026 +59
The planet is fine. Once humanity goes extinct, she'll recover just fine... Time for another iteration!
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ThatchedRoofCottage Apr 15, 2026 +36
We’re the virus and the warming is a fever.
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ProlapseMishap Apr 15, 2026 +5
All our times have come Here, but now they're gone
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LoneBear1 Apr 15, 2026 +4
Needs more cowbell.
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Ludwigofthepotatoppl Apr 15, 2026 +4
We’ll be shaken off [like fleas](https://youtu.be/Lkv75sUMeQU)
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GizmodosaurusRex Apr 15, 2026 +2
Crab world? Crab world.
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Germane_Corsair Apr 16, 2026 +2
The problem is humanity will take many other species with it.
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FakePoloManchurian Apr 16, 2026 +2
That's something a bot would say
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mrfukurbanana Apr 16, 2026 +6
who is „we”? I don’t recall making the decisions to leave the earth polluted can we please stop attributing the blame to the individuals with little agency, often scraping just to get by and hopefully somewhere along the way afford an apartment or a house and direct the blame where it should be, to the oligarchs, corporations and the rich? please no whataboutism with no ethical consumption under capitalism
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PassiveF1st Apr 15, 2026 +4
Jokes on you losers, I don't have any children.
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Manealendil Apr 15, 2026 +1170
Climate change is finally about to become everyone´s problem and famine will follow.
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xynith116 Apr 15, 2026 +297
Don’t worry, eco-terrorist Trump will save the day! /s
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f1del1us Apr 15, 2026 +91
He’ll be hiding in his bunker like a little b****
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suamai Apr 15, 2026 +64
He'll be dead, actually. The guy is 80 and healthy as an used condom.
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darknekolux Apr 15, 2026 +30
Dunno, apparently evil is a pretty good preservative
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f1del1us Apr 15, 2026 +20
He has the full force of modern medicine keeping him propped up as a literal figurehead to a cult. That medicine infrastructure ain't going anywhere anytime soon; and the entire government has been captured by the oligarch class. Its EXTREMELY wishful thinking to think that lower class collapse would affect those facts.
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zoltar1970 Apr 15, 2026 +4
If only his father had used one
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Japsabbath Apr 15, 2026 +3
A used condom.
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TooMuchAZSunshine Apr 15, 2026 +6
Good news is that he can bulk order his Big Macs and fries since they don't degrade over time. The fat orange turd will be eating them long after the world above is gone.
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xynith116 Apr 15, 2026 +2
They’re just gonna open a McDonald’s inside the bunker and get DoorDash grandma to deliver it for him. Sidenote: Do you think McDonald’s is his favorite just because it has his name on it?
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Conflatulations12 Apr 15, 2026 +6
Armed with naught, but a sharpie, he'll negotiate with the current.
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desubot1 Apr 15, 2026 +7
with the way things are going, im half expecting him to seriously consider nuking it.
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xynith116 Apr 15, 2026 +5
He’s gonna ask if we can nuke the current.
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HoosierRed Apr 15, 2026 +81
Would lead to significant chabge if it does in fact become a monumental issue for rich nations.
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EmbarrassedW33B Apr 15, 2026 +142
Not good change. Wealthy countries are going to devour poorer countries to get their resources, rather than cooperate to alleviate suffering. Picture the neo-colonial nonsense that Trump (or more accurately the billionaire freaks puppetimg him) wants to do with Greenland but all over the world.  And don't think Europe will maintain some kind of moral high ground. They'll go back to their colonial ways real quick once climate change really starts to bite. 
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USSRPropaganda Apr 15, 2026 +26
Europes already backsliding to fascism, once people start getting displaced en masse it’s over
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PM-me-Gophers Apr 15, 2026 +26
I can't tell if you're cosplaying with that username or the most obvious troll ever.. Edit: Just to say, mass migration will become a huge issue, I don't doubt immigration restrictions will tighten. It's a bed the right wing, anti-renewables, anti-climate assholes have made for themselves.
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nick4fake Apr 15, 2026 +3
Nothing will change until it affects billionaires, lol
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MediocreAssociate466 Apr 15, 2026 +5
Sadly a lot of the countries who have contributed the least will suffer the most from climate change
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RamsHead91 Apr 15, 2026 +15
The paper is talking about 2100. And with our current fucked up system it is likely to accelerate.
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hoppyandbitter Apr 16, 2026 +5
And food insecurity will continue to rise to critical levels long before we reach the zenith of the climate change catastrophe
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snoogins355 Apr 16, 2026 +15
Probably 2030. Because millennials keep getting fucked
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Gurlllllllll- Apr 16, 2026 +5
I'm so tired of living through once-in-a-lifetime events.
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theeLizzard Apr 16, 2026 +4
Can’t ChatGPT help us find a solution? /s
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Additional_Tank4385 Apr 15, 2026 +7
That’s why from especially at this point we should label it climate collapse. Idk but climate change still sounds way too mild. Like oh yeah the climate is changing, changing into what? Chaos. Chaos and disorder after it took millions of years to stabilise the wonderful climate and seasons which we are now speedrun destroying. I’d say we had a good run but it’s also a kind of depressing one. All that endless oil giving us this kind of heaven we’ve created in the first world countries at the expense of maybe even our f****** race. Crazy to imagine being born exactly in this point in time though to see earth getting g really, really fucked.
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Damunzta Apr 15, 2026 +269
World leaders and CEOs don’t care. Don’t mean to be a nihilist, but we the people, we can’t do shit.
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SomewhereNo8378 Apr 15, 2026 +65
they believe themselves to be the most important ever. so if everything ends and earth becomes inhospitable, it’s okay because they got to live how they wanted until it did.
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KimmyT1436 Apr 15, 2026 +41
There truly is a cabal of billionaires and world leaders who are so narcissistic and stupid that they are actively working to bring about the collapse of human society, and the Earth's climate with it, because they are dumb enough to think they will be able to ride out societal and climate Armageddon in their bunkers and emerge afterward to become the next kings and feudal lords of humanity.
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Alphaspade Apr 16, 2026 +10
If humanity collapses, what the f*** is there to rule over?
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PainInMyArse Apr 16, 2026 +6
Land bub, all the land the sun touches.
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wjdoyle88 Apr 15, 2026 +15
We can, it just hasn’t gotten bad enough yet.
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BastianHS Apr 15, 2026 +14
Oh they do. That's why they are building bunkers on tropical islands. They just don't care if *we* all die in the scramble.
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YourFreeCorrection Apr 16, 2026 +5
>Don’t mean to be a nihilist, but we the people, we can’t do shit. Well, we can, but we aren't.
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RayneSexton Apr 16, 2026 +3
We won't until the bread and circus ends Too complacent and lazy as a species
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NihilisticHobbit Apr 15, 2026 +3
I'll be a nihilist. Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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Horny4theEnvironment Apr 15, 2026 +4
Billions of dollars have been lost from 10 warehouse fires started by a dozen people. We the People, CAN do shit.
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I_Have_A_Nightmare Apr 15, 2026 +171
It's ok we have AI currents now. We can change the color like LED lighting. /S
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S_A_R_K Apr 15, 2026 +42
Can't we just nuke the current?
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Pan_Galactic_G_B Apr 15, 2026 +12
You can inject it full of bleach with no ill effects.
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AContrarianDick Apr 15, 2026 +8
We're going to invade the current then blockade it.
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mog44net Apr 15, 2026 +6
Question, does the ocean need freedom and does it have enough oil to make it worth our time?
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gimlet_prize Apr 15, 2026 +65
Isn’t this what happened in The Day After Tomorrow?
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TrumpetOfDeath Apr 15, 2026 +116
The current collapsing yes, but the consequences portrayed in that movie are complete fantasy and not at all realistic
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Weareallgoo Apr 15, 2026 +64
So you’re saying that an ice age wont begin a couple days after the currents stop? Has everything I’ve been told by Hollywood been a lie?
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TrumpetOfDeath Apr 15, 2026 +20
No. Apparently Hollywood isn’t the best place to learn science
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xIllustrious_Passion Apr 15, 2026 +14
Next you’ll tell moonfall was completely fictional.
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PhoenixTineldyer Apr 15, 2026 +5
Wait wait wait What about Stanley Tucci and the great underground melting mining train digging to the core to set off nukes?
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TrumpetOfDeath Apr 15, 2026 +5
I have bad news for you….
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Momik Apr 16, 2026 +3
Is… is Stanley Tucci ok? 🥺
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Momik Apr 16, 2026 +20
Like when the cold is literally chasing them down the hall and they slam the door shut like it’s a monster movie?
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Old_Front7166 Apr 15, 2026 +15
You're telling me I can't just close the door on freezing weather that ices people to death?
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DadJokeBadJoke Apr 16, 2026 +3
This sounds like the plot to Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown. Here we go again, again...
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enormuschwanzstucker Apr 16, 2026 +2
Who left the fridge open?
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DifficultOpposite614 Apr 15, 2026 +4
Actually you’re wrong and it’s 100% factually true and I know that because I’ve watched it about a million times which obviously makes me an expert on this ( /s in case it isn’t obvious)
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Gbrown546 Apr 16, 2026 +14
The world we’re going to leave behind for our children and their children is going to be devastating. I don’t have children yet but future projections showing societal collapse in the future due to climate change does make me think twice about ever having them. I try to look at the positive for everything, and hope that we can still rescue this
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fadedinthefade Apr 15, 2026 +12
I’m sure all the governments of the world will unite and do something about it for the common good of our species….
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Correct_Emu7015 Apr 15, 2026 +16
Who woulda thought? Oh yeah, people with brains.
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TheWhiteManticore Apr 15, 2026 +39
Another day another step to the apocalypse 🙄
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Shedfloorgarbage Apr 15, 2026 +5
Hey were not walking towards it.
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mozilla2012 Apr 16, 2026 +2
You also take steps while sprinting!
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voter1126 Apr 15, 2026 +17
The IPCC models are all over the place because there is only 20 years of hard data, but most of them point to a weaking and not a collapse. Article does agree with most of the models timeframes of 2100 or later.
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Reasonable_Bath9878 Apr 15, 2026 +32
can it like remove the pedos in america
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BatJJ9 Apr 15, 2026 +26
Unfortunately the collapse of AMOC will probably mainly devastate Western Europe, as that’s the direction that the heat is transferred. The pedos in America will continue to rule our country and our corporations unmolested.
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pizoisoned Apr 15, 2026 +26
Well at least something will go unmolested.
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jonnyynnoj125 Apr 15, 2026 +2
This is the only way
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jchowdown Apr 15, 2026 +13
I'll take "Ten Unforeseen Circumstances For Every One We Know About" for $500, Alex
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TheRexRider Apr 15, 2026 +3
Luigi did nothing wrong.
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Cakeski Apr 16, 2026 +3
I hope your kids like Soylent Green!
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Lettuce_bee_free_end Apr 16, 2026 +3
Yea sorry the psychophants in control do not care.
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Sablestein Apr 16, 2026 +2
I was gonna ask if you meant psychopaths or sycophants but already know the answer is “yes”.
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FruitySalads Apr 15, 2026 +5
I’m sorry my son and daughter.
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Agreeable-Race8818 Apr 15, 2026 +3
Don’t worry guys not on my watch 
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DifficultOpposite614 Apr 15, 2026 +6
The day after tomorrow?
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PhoenixTineldyer Apr 15, 2026 +3
I was just talking about that movie today
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Mraz565 Apr 15, 2026 +7
If we are going to get a "Today after Tomorrow" type event. Can mother nature do it before work tomorrow.
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D1C3R927 Apr 16, 2026 +2
Hey, I've seen this movie already.
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pugsley1234 Apr 16, 2026 +2
So glad that climate change is just a Chinese hoax...
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DCON-creates Apr 16, 2026 +2
Skiing in Ireland is no longer a pipe dream!
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cruisin_urchin87 Apr 15, 2026 +3
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW is a tale of the future!
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purplegladys2022 Apr 15, 2026 +3
"The Coming Global Superstorm" noises intensify.
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TrickyChildhood2917 Apr 16, 2026 +4
Does it mean no more plastic bags at the grocers? No more plastic straws. I’m asking cause India and China are building coal fired power plants like there’s no tomorrow- pun intended!
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Sweaty_Marzipan4274 Apr 16, 2026 +3
Chaos and destruction feds the capitalist machine, those causing it will profit from it
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GirlNumber20 Apr 16, 2026 +3
"The Day After Tomorrow" growing more relevant by the year.
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dotcomse Apr 16, 2026 +2
Weren’t they talking about this in The Day After Tomorrow? That was 25 years ago. Did people think “this is something that could or will happen, but it’ll never happen”?
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TrolleyTrekker Apr 15, 2026 +3
Isn't this the plot to a day after tomorrow?
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Mouse_Canoe Apr 15, 2026 +6
Yes, but the movie is highly inaccurate about the effects it would cause.
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Hagoromo-san Apr 16, 2026 +2
Wasn’t this scenario the plot to Day After Tomorrow
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Toddcraft Apr 16, 2026 +2
I'm fine with humans getting fucked over because that's what we deserve, but I'm not okay that the animals are going to suffer also for it.
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