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1. Food prices will go up, probably by quite a lot. 2. Your chance of contracting an infectious disease that used to only live in the tropics will be higher.
by nikdaheratik 10y ago
1. Food prices will go up, probably by quite a lot.
2. Your chance of contracting an infectious disease that used to only live in the tropics will be higher.
3. Depending on where you live it will either be much dryer or much wetter rather than more temperate.
4. Obviously, at that point, energy prices will have to be much higher as there won't be as many fossil fuels. Or else we would have transitioned to renewable sources/nuclear by then.
5. If we're talking about even more worse case scenarios, there's the death of large chunks of life in the ocean as corals will have been bleached and the fish that live there died. Also runaway algae blooms, deaths of birds and other animals that used to live on those now dead fish.
6. Areas near the equator, like the middle east, that supply important resources will be basically uninhabitable for large parts of the year if not the entire year.
7. Areas in the far north that are covered in permafrost will turn into swamps/bogs instead. Also, in some projections, places in Europe that are warmed by the N. Atlantic stream may end up being much cooler and similar to other places at similar latitudes (e.g. Canada/Russia).
But again, many of these are unlikely to happen until late in the 21st century, so you're likely going to not be alive then anyways.
- randyrand 10y agoSo it seems that with a one time move you could avoid 4/5 of these? Not including the fish one since it doesn't really affect daily life IMO, or the oil price one since that is just what happens when you run out of something and not a consequence of GW, IMO. Seems like only daily life effect of GW (assuming you migrated to somewhere else over the course of 50 years) will be higher food prices. Though I'm also curious if over time innovation will make that change rather insignificant.