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The focus on sea level rise is a huge mistake. We need to be focusing on what this is going to do in terms of food production. People will be more alarmed from
by Podgajski 3y ago
The focus on sea level rise is a huge mistake. We need to be focusing on what this is going to do in terms of food production. People will be more alarmed from starvation than having to move away from the coast.
- stevenwoo 3y agoIt should be talked about but I do not think it matters since the fact of human influenced climate change happening has been politicized so a large percentage of people have as a matter of their political identity need to deny it and stop any effort to mitigate it, so they won't change their behavior or voting habits even on the point of it directly make them un-housed (this is from listening to interviews with people who got flooded out of their homes from last hurricane to hit Florida) or hungry. It's a long term problem in our short term focused society. So far the only free market reaction is home insurance being set much higher or cut off in Florida for extreme weather risk and California for fire risk. We in the USA probably won't do anything drastic until things get very dire directly for tens of millions of people in the USA or maybe tens of millions of people to die, since we have already shown to be okay with approximately a million excess deaths from COVID-19 so far. Humanity got our act together on CFC's and the ozone layer hole but fossil fuels has so many vested interests it's a hard nut to crack.