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The notion of country matters very much in the conversation of global warming - while every country will be somehow affected, the effect will be very different
by PeterisP 7y ago
The notion of country matters very much in the conversation of global warming - while every country will be somehow affected, the effect will be very different for different countries. A rise of sea level will eliminate or devastate some contries while barely affecting others; the change in rainfall and temperature patterns will devastate agriculture in some countries while improving it in others; etc.
And a lot of how and why climate change mitigation is (not) working is explainable by the difference between the countries who'd bear the worst consequences of climate change and the countries who'd bear the worst costs to reduce these consequences.
- belltaco 7y agoApart from droughts and the heat etc. what happens when people try to escape all those consequences in their countries by becoming refugees? Germany would need to do something about it, whether let them in, keep them out by huge military force etc. https://www.climateforesight.eu/migrations/environmental-migrants-up-to-1-billion-by-2050/ https://www.climateforesight.eu/migrations/environmental-mig...
- PeterisP 7y agoOf course, that would affect Germany as well, but it's obvious that the effect of that migration on Germans would be fundamentally different from the effect of that same migration on e.g. Bangladeshis, the choices they need to make (or can make) to mitigate that impact are substantially different.