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Every location on earth is at risk of becoming uninhabitable within the next 50 years. Predicting which will be most at risk is relatively easy. Predicting whi
by pwinnski 5y ago
Every location on earth is at risk of becoming uninhabitable within the next 50 years.
Predicting which will be most at risk is relatively easy. Predicting which will be least at risk is much harder, as some of the effects are complex. e.g. Things getting warmer seems like it should be good for cold places, but it turns out to have negative consequences as well.
- pdonis 5y ago> Every location on earth is at risk of becoming uninhabitable within the next 50 years. This is way, way beyond what any kind of scientific data suggests, even under the most extreme assumptions for projecting things into the future (and models based on those extreme assumptions are already falsified by actual data anyway).
- pwinnski 5y agoPlease, suggest specific locations which are at zero risk of becoming uninhabitable based on scientific data. No runaway fires, no tornados, hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, no fear of rising sea levels or runaway rivers, no risk of resource depletion. Free from any sort of natural disaster, this place must be pretty special! Or maybe you misunderstood the words I used.
- pdonis 5y agoOh, please. Most of the currently inhabited land surface of Earth does not experience any of the things you mention. But the media don't want us to be bored, so they don't run stories about how nicely habitable most of the Earth is. They only run stories about the small portion of Earth's land surface that experiences disasters. To extrapolate that to the entire planet, as you are doing, is ridiculous.