> a developing country struggling with desertification or disappearance of drinking water or floods will likely not look better in a few decades. Capetown or ot

> a developing country struggling with desertification or disappearance of drinking water or floods will likely not look better in a few decades. Capetown or other places may not exist in a few decades. This is categorically wrong. And it's hard to know what to say when all evidence is against this. As a side note, to a specific case you mention, the life expectancy in Capetown is the largest in the country and continuously improving. Even in the fantasy world of the 'Media' where it might run out of water, in a few decade their lives would still be far better than now.