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Everyone is likely to be screwed in unpredictable ways, but New Zealand keeps coming up as a place where things won't be so bad. Siberia as well...
by radicaldreamer 5y ago
Everyone is likely to be screwed in unpredictable ways, but New Zealand keeps coming up as a place where things won't be so bad. Siberia as well...
- jgamman 5y agossshhhh https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/05/all-the-maps-that-are-missing-new-zealand.html https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/05/all-the-m...
- nroets 5y agoMass migration to New Zealand or Siberia would entail would mean more construction work causing more carbon to be released. Rather adapt existing buildings to the changing climate.
- mikepurvis 5y agoRight, but that's a global cost for a localized benefit... which is kind of the whole deal here. In any case, basically every mitigation is still going to involve massive amounts of concrete- and diesel-related emissions, whether it's new housing, flood control measures, new energy sources, carbon capture, etc etc.
- jfk13 5y agoMass migration to New Zealand would pretty quickly overflow the islands.
- valec 5y agoSiberia recently suffered some of the worst wildfires on the entire planet haha. I think probably the safest would be East Canada as they're cold enough but not as tree-like.
- jagger27 5y agoEastern Canada already gets pretty strong storms during hurricane season. Those will surely keep getting worse.
- valec 5y agoSure on the coast but the Great Lakes-adjacent region should fare pretty well, or at least better than everywhere else.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoGreat lakes region is considered "central", not eastern, Canada. When we refer to the east in Canada, we are referring to the Atlantic provinces.
- masklinn 5y ago> Siberia as well... Siberia may get warmer weather, but the grounds will be awful. Melting permafrost and methane explosions don’t make for a very stable situation.
- wongarsu 5y agoSouthern Siberia might become farmable and quite nice. Northern Siberia not so much, no matter how much we heat things up
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoSiberia will be continuous forest fires. Much like Canada's north. I'm partial to the northern half of the great lakes.
- myth_drannon 5y agoWell, I doubt Siberia will be ok. Northern passage will become commercially viable but the Taiga forest itself will most likely be burning for the next couple decades until it's all gone. So unless people walk 24h in oxygen masks it will not be a nice place to live.