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>This will likely result in an [increase](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/
by thinkingtoilet 3y ago
>This will likely result in an [increase](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014....) of arable land.
This is my point. We already have major immigration/refugee issues all over the world. Even if we are 100% certain climate change will result in more farm land for humanity, the issue is where are the people now and where will that farm land be then? Do you think Russia (or any other country) will be happy to take in a billion people from South-East Asia? Legal immigration is an issue now. This will be a humanitarian catastrophe larger than any war humanity has ever faced by orders of magnitude.
- iamegypt 3y ago[flagged]
- Gareth321 3y agoFamine in Africa is an existential risk with or without global warming. Currently 822 million people are estimated to be malnourished. As per the citations above, global warming will provide only a slightly elevated risk of famine relative to present day. Overpopulation in Africa is a problem to be solved either way. Ameliorating global warming won’t make any meaningful improvement to that.
- thinkingtoilet 3y agoI genuinely don't understand how your comment is a response to mine. Where are we going to move the billions of people living in coastal South East Asia when oceans rise and their land becomes un-farmable due to climate change?
- Gareth321 3y agoRising oceans aren’t going to make coastal areas in Asia uninhabitable for any appreciable proportion of people for centuries. Asia has huge tracts of unused land. Over the centuries, people will migrate. I tried to explain to you that overpopulation has almost nothing to do with global warming, and conflating the two diminishes our ability to solve each.