Berries, you are quoting the IPCC report in the most selective way, hinting that any other reading of unfolding world events is alarmist, ill-informed and overly dramatic. This is so sneaky! Parts of the world are indeed becoming 'unlivable' as a direct consequence of man-made climate change: in my professional role I often meet families from countries who report how life is increasingly hazardous or impoverished as a direct result of adverse climate conditions
Adverse climate conditions have always been with us. How we deal with it is good infrastructure. Even you know this. Why would we want people to live like this when they could live as comfortably as you or I?
Europe stopping using fossil fuels will only hurt yourselves and the people you mention will not be helped one bit.
Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Mali, Afghanistan and Somalia
People have been quite comfortable now in the Arabian peninsula thanks to copious use of fossil fuels. No one could really live there without them except for nomadic groups living on the literal margins, their lifestyle is not an easy one as you also must know.
Further up the thread you suggest that my suggestion to manage our expectations of our future standard of living and working toward sustainable adaptations will cause more death and misery (I paraphrase) than climate change. Really? What do you think is being advocated? We cannot pursue a global or national growth economy indefinitely on a planet of finite resources
People are already having to choose between energy and food due to artificial scarcity. The drop in living standards is now at your door and you have no solution other than further cutbacks. You say resources are scarce, but then it’s all artificial, since you don’t support further exploration efforts. Peak oil is not even talked about anymore, it was a total myth.
Do you even know how important fossil fuels are to something as basic as agriculture? Inputs from the fertilisers all the way to harvest. You cannot get away from it.
Additionally, if you want birth rates to drop in the developing world, the best thing you could do is … develop it. Look at East Asia’s huge drops in birth rates after each individual countries’ development. We need to other countries to follow the East Asian model.
A gradual transition to sustainable alternatives will be necessary. Failure to make timely adaptations to mitigate future damage is what will cause untold harm
You could advocate for nuclear power in energy generation. But green advocates rarely do.
I have lived in China for much of my life (though not anymore). I have seen how industrialisation has improved the living standards of the average person tremendously and people like you act as if that’s a bad thing. Flooding and earthquakes used to kill tens of thousands when they happened—and even though the population is bigger, deaths have dropped precipitously thanks to better building standards (fossil fuels), better roads in and out (fossil fuels), better emergency equipment (fossil fuels), better hospitals (again powered by fossil fuels).
You have nothing to offer a developing country whilst asking your fellow European to take a pointless hit to their living standards.
It honestly makes me angry how myopic Europeans can be.