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Except of course, with rising sea levels due to glacier melt many of the major US cities will be underwater. You mentioned the Northeast? Here's an article abou
by patientplatypus 7y ago
Except of course, with rising sea levels due to glacier melt many of the major US cities will be underwater. You mentioned the Northeast? Here's an article about how New York is going to be underwater (https://gothamist.com/2019/05/21/new_climate_report_suggests_we_migh.php https://gothamist.com/2019/05/21/new_climate_report_suggests...).
Also, climate change doesn't have to hit your area specifically to be harmful. Crop failures will lead to wars and displaced people. Water shortages in India lead to angry people that want to fight over Kashmir, increased migration from climate affected areas to richer areas cause ethnic tension (from North Africa to Europe, from South America to the US). As an aside, clearly the policies of nationalists are abhorrent, but they don't occur in a vacuum, and, in the US at least, the left hasn't provided a clear path to a solution to this issue.
Here's the CIA being worried about such things (https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30012019/worldwide-threat-assessment-climate-change-intelligence-agencies-national-security https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30012019/worldwide-threat...).
Yes, this is very doom and gloom. The facts are gloomy and connecting the dots on our possible futures spells out, in all likelihood, doom. How can you not see this?
- selectstatement 7y agoHumans are a very adaptable species and there are no guarantees that the environment should continue as it once was perpetually. The situations in theses articles are just as likely to not happen as they are to come true.
- patientplatypus 7y agoThe situations in theses articles are just as likely to not happen as they are to come true. Um, what? On what are you basing this likelihood on? These are scientists that study this for a living. This sounds like complete fabrication.
- selectstatement 7y agoThat doesn't mean that they can predict the future with high accuracy. They might have some chance slightly above random but there are way too many variables unconsidered. All it takes is one asteroid to invalidate all the predictions. Or one war. Or one biological contagion. Or one technological innovation.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoThen we should just lay down and die from the fear.
- inawarminister 7y agoIt's important to mention that the current-ish (started 10,000 years ago in the Younger Dryas) warmth of Interglacial era made us able to settle down and practise agriculture. Before that, for millions of years - we're stuck as Hunter-Gatherers, forever in the mercy of Nature. Perhaps in the days of tomorrow, we will once again be in the mercy of Nature? Of course not, as long as we retain our technologies. Ergo, even if you (and I agree) don't think climate change will doom humanity as a whole, I'd still be sympathetic to rational campaigns reducing it's effects.
- kaesar14 7y agoIf that happens, we’ll adapt to the rising tides, either building infrastructure to compensate or moving inland. Florida’s likely doomed either way but other major cities don’t have to be. I’d rather be on the side of the border that’s angry about the immigrants than the side of the border the immigrants are fleeing from.