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Imagine some unstoppable force raises the water levels in your appartement by 1mm per year - starting next year. You'll probably buy rubber boots first week in

• labster 3y ago
  When the hurricane’s storm surge enters your house. For now, the bigger coastal threat is from a longer, stronger tropical cyclone season. Moving extrema are always what you notice first.
• hnarn 3y ago
  > When do you migrate? Migrate where? This analogy doesn't make any sense, unless the apartment is our planet and the answer is "there's nowhere to go". It's not just about rising water levels, or temperature changes, or weather changes. It's about all of it and the fact that we're performing an experiment with no rollback that may or may not lead to the extinction of our species. Carl Sagan said in the late 80's[1], and I'm heavily paraphrasing, that by 1989 the US would have spent $1 trillion dollars on the cold war (enough money to buy "everything in the united states except the land") -- which is to say, defending against the potential threat of Soviet invasion. This was obviously a non-zero risk, but the real question is: how large was the risk compared to the money being spent, and what is the risk of climate change compared to the money being spent. [1]: https://infinite.mit.edu/video/carl-sagan-guest-speaker-sloan-symposium-management-year-2000%E2%80%9D-11141987 https://infinite.mit.edu/video/carl-sagan-guest-speaker-sloa...