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We will but not at our current numbers. Rich countries will suffer the most.
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago
We will but not at our current numbers. Rich countries will suffer the most.
- sadhorse 2y agoHow so? Huge flooding in Brazil this year, they are not recovering any time soon. Poor countries lack the resources that rich countries literally burn for their luxury.
- ars 2y agoSay Brazil floods this year, and next year, and the year after that. What do you think will happen next? What will happen is Brazil will start planning for it, and then they'll be fine. There will be an adjustment period, and then, life goes on.
- bwestergard 2y agoHuh? Of course life goes on, but it will be a more resource constrained life, and that will make political negotiations more difficult. If those aren't implications worth worrying about, what would be?
- kjkjadksj 2y agoThis is what people don’t get about places like Florida. The people in Florida are in fact aware that it storms and floods, thats why the house is built on stilts with metal storm shutters.
- paulmd 2y agoSure, but it’s expensive and it’s still devastated by storms etc. Like these building techniques works so well that insurers have left the Florida market because it’s unprofitable to rebuild everyone every couple years, so the state outlawed charging rates that account for the actual expense of it, and now people can’t get home insurance policies anymore. Like literally it’s already too expensive to keep doing it without a massive funnel of taxpayer money into peoples beach houses. It’s literally only viable to keep doing that by leeching off the largesse of the taxpayer and other homeowners in less dangerous locales. Florida also has the additional problem that it’s literally built on karst topology, it’s limestone riddled with tunnels and sinkholes so water comes right up under it, you can’t even pump the cities dry like the Netherlands.
- paulmd 2y agohttps://www.newsweek.com/florida-insurance-crisis-explained-1812418 https://www.newsweek.com/florida-insurance-crisis-explained-...
- kjkjadksj 2y agoInsurers have not left the florida market. The number of uninsured homes is estimated to be like 10-20%, probably what you'd expect given a certain percentage of holdout low income homeowning areas from before florida saw so much inflow in certain real estate markets. The national rate is a little under 10% for reference. Sometimes when headlines and assumptions seem absurd, like no insurance in florida, its worth looking into it a little bit.
- paulmd 2y agohttps://www.newsweek.com/florida-insurance-crisis-explained-1812418 https://www.newsweek.com/florida-insurance-crisis-explained-...
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- dartharva 2y agoAbsolutely wrong. India, China and the more polluting poorer countries are the ones who'll always suffer more. With >300 AQIs in most highly-populated areas, dirty water from rivers almost all of which are hazardously polluted, combined with a tropical climate that's already hot enough to kill thousands of people from heatstroke alone in summers - pollution-related misery in US and Europe isn't anywhere close enough to that in India. It just doesn't get called out because Indians have bigger existential concerns (many of which go directly against climate-friendliness).
- datavirtue 2y ago"Absolutely wrong. India, China and the more polluting poorer countries are the ones who'll always suffer more." ....until the migrations.