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The headlines certainly will. Let's wait and see if it ever manages to impact my life. Seeing scary headlines like these for multiple decades without ever havin

by Kaiyou 7y ago

The headlines certainly will. Let's wait and see if it ever manages to impact my life. Seeing scary headlines like these for multiple decades without ever having my life impacted sure has done nothing to lend credibility to those headlines.

ForHackernews 7y ago
How old are you? You'll probably live long enough to have hundreds of millions of climate refugees beating down the door to your country when their cities become literally unlivable: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/climate/india-heat-wave-summer.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/climate/india-heat-wave-s...
- Kaiyou 7y ago
  The oldest headlines I remember are from the 1960s and 70s. Also, there's already so many "refugees" in my country, I won't notice a couple of million more. The way I see it things will tip politically towards the far, far right and then I won't have to worry about people dying outside of my country.
  - ForHackernews 7y ago
    Well, I guess that's a refreshingly sociopathic outlook. If you were alive in the 60s and 70s, you probably won't live to see the worst of what's coming, but any children and grandchildren you have will. And we're not talking about a few million: some estimates suggest up to a billion people will relocate in response to pressure from changing climate. Rich nations are kidding themselves if they think they can close borders against numbers like that.
    - Kaiyou 7y ago
      With a military complex big enough and autonomous weapons, I don't see the problem, to be honest. Just using some of the currently banned chemical weapons can eradicate those numbers with minimal effort. It's all a matter of politics. Once it tips, those numbers won't matter, other than being a statistic for the annals of history. "X people were massacred...". If it doesn't tip, it's going to be game over, though.

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The headlines certainly will. Let's wait and see if it ever manages to impact my life. Seeing scary headlines like these for multiple decades without ever havin

by Kaiyou 7y ago

ForHackernews 7y ago
How old are you? You'll probably live long enough to have hundreds of millions of climate refugees beating down the door to your country when their cities become literally unlivable: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/climate/india-heat-wave-summer.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/climate/india-heat-wave-s...
- Kaiyou 7y ago
  The oldest headlines I remember are from the 1960s and 70s. Also, there's already so many "refugees" in my country, I won't notice a couple of million more. The way I see it things will tip politically towards the far, far right and then I won't have to worry about people dying outside of my country.
  - ForHackernews 7y ago
    Well, I guess that's a refreshingly sociopathic outlook. If you were alive in the 60s and 70s, you probably won't live to see the worst of what's coming, but any children and grandchildren you have will. And we're not talking about a few million: some estimates suggest up to a billion people will relocate in response to pressure from changing climate. Rich nations are kidding themselves if they think they can close borders against numbers like that.
    - Kaiyou 7y ago
      With a military complex big enough and autonomous weapons, I don't see the problem, to be honest. Just using some of the currently banned chemical weapons can eradicate those numbers with minimal effort. It's all a matter of politics. Once it tips, those numbers won't matter, other than being a statistic for the annals of history. "X people were massacred...". If it doesn't tip, it's going to be game over, though.