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So... You can't outwalk climate change? Tell me more about how the sea levels are rising that fast.

• JoeAltmaier 7y ago
  Its exhausting, all the deniers who gloss over global ecological disaster with "I'll just stay in my apartment" or whatever naive notion makes the problem go away. E.g. When sea levels change, reefs on shallow shelves get less light. They die and regrow at the more favorable optimal depth, which takes decades/centuries. Even a few inches of rise. All sea life essentially exists in the top few meters of water, and depends upon coastal ecosystems. They collapse - the vast majority of sea life is affected. Vast numbers of human beings depend utterly upon fishing. Usually poorer people in less developed nations. They will starve. Starving people numbered in the hundreds of millions/billions will have a political effect. The refugee issues we've see upsetting nations (thousands of refugees! We can't cope!) turns to millions then hundreds of millions. Yes you might survive the weather change in your midtown apartment far from the sea. But will we all survive the 'ring of fire' resulting from global catastrophic refugee migration? Resulting brush wars that turn into regional conflicts that turn into worse? That's one simple scenario resulting from ecological collapse due to one variable. Multiply by all the effects from ecosystems everywhere. Conclusion: we must weight the danger of a false negative (doing nothing until its too late) which in this case is immense, when figuring our response to the climate issue.