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Climate change is also going to make the world increasingly less pleasant to live in over the next couple decades, directly (weather, flooding, drought, famine,
by retzkek 5y ago
Climate change is also going to make the world increasingly less pleasant to live in over the next couple decades, directly (weather, flooding, drought, famine, etc) and indirectly (instability, social unrest, war). Unless you can extend your life long enough (and otherwise have the means) to see the other side of this epoch, suffering through more of it is probably not desirable.
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- maerF0x0 5y agohonest question, do you think this is true even for middle class or wealthier people from wealthy nations? I imagine we have the resources to just move and adapt. The way I understood it it's the poor nations that are really screwed. They cannot afford to relocate, and some of them have the worst weather already (feeding into why they're already poor).. .
- retzkek 5y agoSure, the wealthy will be able to move and adapt, consuming an increasingly large share of the dwindling resources to maintain their comfortable lifestyle. Meanwhile the poor and then the middle class will be left to fend for themselves, or stuffed into refugee camps in marginally habitable areas.
- giantg2 5y ago... or rise up as history has previously shown.