Daniel Bachman (@danielbachman.bsky.social)

These are shocking numbers, but it still feels like this is minimizing sci comm, bc it doesn’t account for all the deaths caused by other tipping points & instead just focuses on one & at some far away date. There are estimates that each 1C the planet warms we’ll lose at least a billion people.

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Wildfire smoke will kill nearly 1.4m each year by end of century if emissions not curbed – study Separate research found that at the current rate of global heating, more than 70,000 people will die in the US by 2050 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/18/wildfire-smoke-global-deaths-2050

about 3 hours ago