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Facts disagree with your theories: non-white people disproportionately live in parts of the world that are prone to droughts, flooding, famine, etc.

• Udik 7y ago
  My country was also, for many centuries (and before climate change), prone to droughts, flooding, and famine. It's not that its climate became better, it's that during the centuries we deviated entire rivers, built ten metres-high embankments around them, built dams and irrigation canals. We drained marshy areas to fight malaria and to allow for new cultivations, and we cultivate industrially, with machines and fertilizers. We also keep maps of the hydro-geological risk to either prevent people from settling in risky areas or to manage the risk of existing settlements. (We also have a problem with rare but catastrophic earthquakes, that are especially hard on towns and villages that are almost a thousand years old. We try to reinforce existing buildings and build quake-resistant ones when an earthquake happens.) One of the problems I see with the current worldview is that many of these interventions are now so far away in time, and ongoing monitoring is so specialized, that most people simply forgot that they exist and ensure our current prosperity. But in fact we're simply profiting from the lessons of centuries of disasters and of careful engineering.