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How exactly does climate change lead to a world war? I can understand that there will be many climate refugees, but refugees don’t form armies that can stand u
by thehappypm 6y ago
How exactly does climate change lead to a world war?
I can understand that there will be many climate refugees, but refugees don’t form armies that can stand up to a standing Western army. I’ve always understood the biggest threat to be mass displacement and starvation, leading to closed off borders, and poverty and death in severely impacted countries like Bangladesh.
But world war? Not so sure. The world powers will easily adapt to climate change.
The US is immense and for every county with more forest fires, a faraway county will have better crop yields. For every city abandoned by floods, inland cities will swell in population and prestige.
- KineticLensman 6y ago> For every city abandoned by floods, inland cities will swell in population and prestige That will be poor consolation for the inhabitants of the flooded cities. Also, a lot of infrastructure (think docks and roads) is located on the coasts, often associated with the cities. This will be very expensive to replace in a carbon neutral way, especially as the sea levels continue to rise.
- thehappypm 6y agoI understand it is not ideal, but that’s a huge jump to “world war”.
- rhino369 6y agoIt's not going to all happen overnight. You won't see an internal refugee crisis inside rich nations. The cost will be slowly added to insurance premiums and devaluation in price of real-estate that will be underwater in 30 years.
- ip26 6y agoThe thinking is probably more like, look at how the EU is infighting over who takes the refugees.
- umeshunni 6y ago> How exactly does climate change lead to a world war? Climate change leads to changes in changes in rivers and availability of fresh water, irrigation water etc. This can leads to conflicts between large states in resource constrained regions (e.g Middle East or South Asia) that could then spread globally.