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I'll take the cold over water shortages, wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, or excessive heat any day. I wonder if we'll see more people coming to the rust be
by nancyminusone 2y ago
I'll take the cold over water shortages, wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, or excessive heat any day.
I wonder if we'll see more people coming to the rust belt as the climate gets worse.
- pc86 2y ago"Just move north" is a common refrain from people who don't understand what climate change means.
- nancyminusone 2y agoCould you expand on this point? Are climate refugees not expected, at least in the short term?
- pc86 2y agoIt's a byproduct of the naïve belief that climate change means it gets hotter (and little/nothing else), to which "just move north" is a logical conclusion. The truth is closer to climate change means more extreme weather happens everywhere, and things get hotter up until -- and here's where my knowledge of science may be much less up-to-date -- a critical mass of ice at the poles melts, and which point the temperature plummets. By definition a lot of areas will be hit hard and some areas will be hit less hard but it's not going to be along a north-south axis.
- Qwertious 2y agoIMO it should be called "climate destabilisation".