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No, outside or a few specific places everyone in the world has been getting richer for the last half century and the trend is continuing[1]. That isn't to by po

by ch4s3 3y ago

No, outside or a few specific places everyone in the world has been getting richer for the last half century and the trend is continuing[1]. That isn't to by pollyannaish, there are certainly going to be some places that really struggle with aridification and increased flooding. However flooding is mostly a solvable technical problem, and plenty of people already live in deserts. The biggest problem for adaptation might turn out to be heat waves. [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/gdp-per-capita https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/gdp-per-capi...

giraffe_lady 3y ago
People are going to get richer than they were by some measure of wealth, but not rich enough to save them from climate change. Which is basically what you're saying I think, though you're more optimistic about it.
- ch4s3 3y ago
  > but not rich enough to save them from climate change I'm not sure what this really means. It seem clear that adaptation will happen, and that may mean some amount of migration by the end of the century which is personally upending for a lot of people but not unprecedented in the last century. Desalinization is showing a lot of progress recently and will likely be much more affordable in the next 20 years. Lithium prices are dropping so we might have a path for ward for grid scale power storage, which would be huge. Major flooding and heat risk that effect large numbers of people are concentrated in a few spots so it seems like infrastructure can be built to handle flooding, and architectural changes coupled with cheaper renewable power can address the heat. We collectively managed to tackle the ozone layer issue before Australia got cooked, so it think there's precedent here. Technology is getting better and we collectively have more resources to bring to bare now. Its not going to be easy or fun, but probably won't be an unraveling of civilization either.

by ch4s3 3y ago

giraffe_lady 3y ago

People are going to get richer than they were by some measure of wealth, but not rich enough to save them from climate change. Which is basically what you're saying I think, though you're more optimistic about it.

ch4s3 3y ago
> but not rich enough to save them from climate change I'm not sure what this really means. It seem clear that adaptation will happen, and that may mean some amount of migration by the end of the century which is personally upending for a lot of people but not unprecedented in the last century. Desalinization is showing a lot of progress recently and will likely be much more affordable in the next 20 years. Lithium prices are dropping so we might have a path for ward for grid scale power storage, which would be huge. Major flooding and heat risk that effect large numbers of people are concentrated in a few spots so it seems like infrastructure can be built to handle flooding, and architectural changes coupled with cheaper renewable power can address the heat. We collectively managed to tackle the ozone layer issue before Australia got cooked, so it think there's precedent here. Technology is getting better and we collectively have more resources to bring to bare now. Its not going to be easy or fun, but probably won't be an unraveling of civilization either.