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Are humans advanced enough to engineer around sea rise and temperature changes?
by LinuxBender 7y ago
Are humans advanced enough to engineer around sea rise and temperature changes?
- b_tterc_p 7y agoThe first problem is what you do with the billion displaced people. That’s not a tech problem, so much as an ethical / pragmatic problem.
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- maxxxxx 7y agoHumanity should be fine. The problem is how to deal with millions of displaced people. We will probably need a few wars to figure that one out.
- onemoresoop 7y agoHumanity may be fine but we're also disrupting other life on the planet that we can't predict the impact of. Humanity may not be so fine after all..
- ThomPete 7y agoYes already now, certainly in 2100.
- _jal 7y agoYes. But not while maintaining anything like current first-world culture. You either need to reduce energy consumption significantly or reduce population significantly. Two guesses how that plays out.
- ianstallings 7y agoWe do it currently. Holland is a good example of fighting back the sea, but at great expense. And not every country will be able to do this type of engineering. The temp rises are another thing that we can adapt to. Maybe even some global engineering to thwart it. But again it will be at great cost. And this will probably have the bigger impact on all of us. Our eco-system is very susceptible to small temp changes.