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You can put it into perspective by identifying what would actually happen. The article says "tens of millions of coastal refugees would have to flee inland, po
by averagewall 9y ago
You can put it into perspective by identifying what would actually happen. The article says
"tens of millions of coastal refugees would have to flee inland, potentially straining societies to the breaking point"
First, that's the worst case, not the expected case and even if it did happen, it's not the end of the world. In WWII, we murdered tens of millions of people and strained societies to the breaking point. But the survivors picked themselves up and now we're fine.
Mao did it again in China, but they're back on their feet now too. We've already had several equivalent worst case scenarios happen in the last century.
- subtenante 9y agoWe have picked ourselves up, precisely, by using fossil energies, the ones that are causing the current troubles, and the ones that are getting less and less available. What will happen in the future can not be inferred by how we managed in the past to get where we are ; I have no doubt that humanity will survive the collapse of our societies, but there is no possible way to know where the equilibrium will be restored in terms of number of individuals on the planet once the stress on fossil fuels is too big. It may be anywhere between where we are now and the hundred millions, combined to a dramatic lowering of the life expectancy.