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Fires burn too fast for this analogy to work. Even in the worst climate change cases, we have a very long time to work out how to get off the planet. It would
by JBReefer 10y ago
Fires burn too fast for this analogy to work. Even in the worst climate change cases, we have a very long time to work out how to get off the planet.
It would be great to avoid, but moving people out of coastal cities certainly has a precedence, and there's plenty of land in Kansas, the Taiga, etc. Life would be tougher than today, but it's not an existential thread.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoI think there's a pretty high probability that such a migration would be accompanied by quite a lot of genocide and war.
- JBReefer 10y agoWhat, NYC vs Rockland county? That wouldn't be a genocide, it would be a zoning argument. Same as Miami vs Georgia. If waves lap up against my place in Queens, I'm not going to start killing my neighbors. I'm going to move to a Minnesota with better weather.
- imron 10y agoYou and how many other millions of people? Would the Minnesotans be happy with that?
- AlgorithmicTime 10y agoThey'd probably be thrilled with all the new tax revenue and industry.