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> If the current climate trends continue, vast areas of the Earth may not be suitable for habitation within half that time, and we still can't seem to convince
by JumpCrisscross 5mo ago
> If the current climate trends continue, vast areas of the Earth may not be suitable for habitation within half that time, and we still can't seem to convince some people this is real
The areas to be rendered “uninhabitable” in our lifetimes are all poor. Hence the disconnect.
- ACCount37 5mo agoKind of true. The geography isn't as constrained, but what holds is that to rich first world countries, climate change is -0.5% GDP. A meaningful impact, but non-catastrophic and diffuse. To poor countries, it might mean death and suffering at scale.
- intended 5mo agoI suspect they will always “be poor”. The rich will move away, and the people left behind will be the ones who don’t have the capacity to make any other choice.
- SJC_Hacker 5mo agoMiami is definitely not poor
- JumpCrisscross 5mo ago> Miami is definitely not poor Whether Miami is rendered uninhabitable is an economic choice. (And one that could realistically be made solely by Miami.) That’s simply not true in e.g. South Asia, Eastern or sub-Saharan Africa. (It’s technically a global economic choice. We could safeguard their populations at great expense.)