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What is the thoughtless part of asking a question? If there is global warming some places will be better off and some worse. Is it so thoughtless to do a cost

• ugh 16y ago
  It’s not thoughtless to ask that question. It’s thoughtless to not search out the current scientific literature or interview an expert and to just wildly guess.
• MichaelSalib 16y ago
  What is the thoughtless part of asking a question? Actually, there are many thoughtless questions. For example, "would raping a small child to death every once in a while really be so bad?" is a thoughtless question. If there is global warming some places will be better off and some worse. That might be true if we were talking about climate change taking place on much larger time scales. But the whole problem with anthropogenic climate change is that we've introduced changes at much faster rates than natural climate evolution. So even places that become "better" in theory can't necessarily benefit in practice. For example, climate change may shift rainfall patterns away from arable land towards deserts. The arable land is now useless, but the deserts need not become fertile: without a deep enough layer of soil to hold water, the rain may just wash away. Now, if this change happened over the course of millenia, the desert would eventually develop a thick enough soil layer so that it might become a fertile region. But for people who were depending on the arable land's food production, the fact that the desert may be fertile in a few thousand years is small comfort.