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Things brings to mind an issue that I haven't seen addressed. Profiting directly from climate change will be an increasing threat. If investors start snapping
by SantalBlush 7y ago
Things brings to mind an issue that I haven't seen addressed. Profiting directly from climate change will be an increasing threat. If investors start snapping up real estate in northern Canada, for example, it creates perverse incentives--not just to ignore climate change, as oil companies have, but to encourage it.
Don't think that people won't devise ways to make a fortune from this disaster.
- nisten 7y agoInvestors are already snapping up real estate in southern Canada creating a housing crisis. We're actively trying to address this problem, it's not new.
- spraak 7y ago> northern Canada I've been frequenting r/collapse and one of the perspectives there is that increasing heat in the north will create desertification and thus not a very hospitable place to live. Which leaves me wondering, where at all would be? Maybe no where... I live near the equator at low elevation and I can't imagine it will be better here either.
- myth_drannon 7y agoIt's possible that the boreal forest will just die from lack of water and deseases coming from the south(like the Asian beetle that is destroying trees in Ontario and Quebec) . Just the other day I was reading an article that the forests in South France are dying of dehydration .