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climate change is one of those few issues where an alarmist attitude is actually needed. Still need to get more media outlets to change from saying "save the p
by dev1n 10y ago
climate change is one of those few issues where an alarmist attitude is actually needed. Still need to get more media outlets to change from saying "save the planet" to "save humanity".
- ars 10y agoWhy? Humanity will be fine. At worst some people will have to move a bit inland.
- soundwave106 10y agoUnder some predictions, parts of the Middle East and North Africa might become, if not uninhabitable, very uncomfortable (50C+ summer averages) by the end of the century, with all the consequences that arise from this. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-016-1665-6 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-016-1665-6 Present experience proves that people, especially the impoverished, can't just easily uproot and leave one country for another, with no political or sociological consequences whatsoever.