How global change directly impacts great apes
Range sizes
West African droughts predicted to increase
Climate change is predicted to be
Predicted impacts of climate change on great apes are numerous to expand upon here, .
Climate change, of course does not just affect wild animals. Climate change has dramatic impact on water availability, soil viability, phenological mismatch and - all of which causes human mass migration, increases illegal logging, hunting and - as the century goes on humanity itself will become synergistic stressor to the all of the factors affected range size in great apes.
This in combination with other global warming factors makes the rate of destruction increase \cite{Carvalho_2021}
More great apes in a smaller area, resource scarcity, mate scarcity
-> Ever increasings droughts, typhoons, heat waves
Resource availability
Culture & the climate crisis
How have long term catastrophic events shaped human cultures previously?
- Syrian droughts
- Great depression
- Native Americans(?)
What are the predicted impacts of climate change on human culture?
- War is more likely (due to water & food shortages exacerbated by infrastructure breakdown)
- Profound sense of loss, increases in depression (being in nature makes humans happier)
- Reduction in fertility?
Humanity and climate change