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Will Earth become too hot for humans? It doesn’t need to be too hot every single hour of every single day, but a single event for which you are unprepared coul

Will Earth become too hot for humans? It doesn’t need to be too hot every single hour of every single day, but a single event for which you are unprepared could turn averages meaningless.

adrianN 3y ago
Some areas most likely will. Parts of India for example. That’s IMO the biggest threat of climate change: hundreds of millions of refugees will cause wars.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
  Famine is more likely as changing weather patterns can devastate crops if they don't get rain at the appropriate times.
  - adrianN 3y ago
    Food is easier to transport than people and a warmer planet might be able to produce more food.
    - ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
      "Might" is doing some lifting there. If long term weather patterns settle down, then that might be true, but in the short term, there's going to be a lot of crops that are dependant on having certain weather within certain times. Maybe there'll be a major shift to only growing irrigated crops, but it's pricey to shift water around to where it's needed. I think there's going to be more food supply issues than can be solved with simply transporting food (especially to poorer regions).
basch 3y ago
It’s past time to be thinking about caves or basically burying our cities after they are built. Lots of fiber optics. Have everything well underground and protected from the elements, and come to the surface when it’s nice out. Which is often at night. Start scheduling society based on weather not clock.
- adrianN 3y ago
  Caves of Steel
  - gmuslera 3y ago
    More like Silo. Or maybe Tumithak of the corridors.
somenameforme 3y ago
We're already thriving in many areas with lethally high and low temperatures. The big difference is going from cold being a threat to heat being one. We instinctively know that going out when it's freezing, unprepared, is a pretty bad idea, but the pairing of heat+humidity doesn't tend to give as obvious of signs as 'my spit freezes before it hits the ground.' If anything it'd be a mixture of a mindset change, and also probably a gradual shifting of where the ultra-premium places to live on the planet are, as well as what plants grow most optimally where, and so on.

Will Earth become too hot for humans? It doesn’t need to be too hot every single hour of every single day, but a single event for which you are unprepared could turn averages meaningless.

adrianN 3y ago

Some areas most likely will. Parts of India for example. That’s IMO the biggest threat of climate change: hundreds of millions of refugees will cause wars.

ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
Famine is more likely as changing weather patterns can devastate crops if they don't get rain at the appropriate times.
- adrianN 3y ago
  Food is easier to transport than people and a warmer planet might be able to produce more food.
  - ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
    "Might" is doing some lifting there. If long term weather patterns settle down, then that might be true, but in the short term, there's going to be a lot of crops that are dependant on having certain weather within certain times. Maybe there'll be a major shift to only growing irrigated crops, but it's pricey to shift water around to where it's needed. I think there's going to be more food supply issues than can be solved with simply transporting food (especially to poorer regions).

basch 3y ago

It’s past time to be thinking about caves or basically burying our cities after they are built. Lots of fiber optics. Have everything well underground and protected from the elements, and come to the surface when it’s nice out. Which is often at night. Start scheduling society based on weather not clock.

adrianN 3y ago
Caves of Steel
- gmuslera 3y ago
  More like Silo. Or maybe Tumithak of the corridors.

somenameforme 3y ago

We're already thriving in many areas with lethally high and low temperatures. The big difference is going from cold being a threat to heat being one. We instinctively know that going out when it's freezing, unprepared, is a pretty bad idea, but the pairing of heat+humidity doesn't tend to give as obvious of signs as 'my spit freezes before it hits the ground.' If anything it'd be a mixture of a mindset change, and also probably a gradual shifting of where the ultra-premium places to live on the planet are, as well as what plants grow most optimally where, and so on.