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Among the many effects of climate change, 700 million people live in areas that will become almost uninhabitable due to rising sea level and flooding at current
by jaynetics 7y ago
Among the many effects of climate change, 700 million people live in areas that will become almost uninhabitable due to rising sea level and flooding at current emission rates. Do you seriously think that people adapting by speaking a different language is as bad as that?
- new2628 7y agoYes, on my list the latter is a more serious problem than the first, it is more certain to be happening, and its effects are more permanent.
- jaynetics 7y ago> more certain Do you doubt that climate change will displace 100s of millions and destroy many large and distinct cultures (e.g. island states) at current emission rates?
- new2628 7y agoThat could certainly happen (although the island states I have heard mentioned in this context have populations more in the 10s of thousands), but in terms of culture/language loss this would be a small event compared to the loss in the past/current decades/century, already happening without climate change.