We may "muddle through", but the "muddling" will be wars caused by agricultural collapse[0], deaths caused by trying to keep refugees of those wars at bay[1], a

We may "muddle through", but the "muddling" will be wars caused by agricultural collapse[0], deaths caused by trying to keep refugees of those wars at bay[1], and violence in "far away" places as the industrialized world seeks to maintain its standard of living in the process[2][3][4]. The disaster is already in full swing, I'm afraid. And attitudes like this are the old adage about frogs and boiling water. It may not look like it in Berlin, London, California (but then again[5]), Hong Kong, or Tokyo, but millions of people are suffering already. The best case right now is the industrialized world makes it at the expense of the "undeveloped" nations, but as Mark Blythe pointed out, the Hamptons is not a defensible position[6]. So it may be worth considering whether this head-in-the-sand approach is worth it, even from a purely self-interest point of view. [0]: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150302-syria-war-climate-change-drought/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150302-syria... [1]: http://www.amnesty.eu/content/assets/Reports/EUR_050012014__Fortress_Europe_complete_web_EN.pdf http://www.amnesty.eu/content/assets/Reports/EUR_050012014__... [2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/03/canada-barrick-gold-mining-compensates-papua-new-guinea-women-rape https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/03/canada-barrick... [3]: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/02/foreign-firms-human-rights-abuses-myanmar-150210040854291.html http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/02/foreign-fi... [4]: https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/19/sierra-leone-mining-boom-brings-rights-abuses https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/19/sierra-leone-mining-boom... [5]: http://www.californiadrought.org/drought/current-conditions/ http://www.californiadrought.org/drought/current-conditions/ [6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwK0jeJ8wxg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwK0jeJ8wxg