Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]

Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] by JBReefer on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @04:59PM (#12593149)

Fires burn too fast for this analogy to work. Even in the worst climate change cases, we have a very long time to work out how to get off the planet.

It would be great to avoid, but moving people out of coastal cities certainly has a precedence, and there's plenty of land in Kansas, the Taiga, etc. Life would be tougher than today, but it's not an existential thread.

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Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] by erikpukinskis on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @08:28PM (#12594495)

I think there's a pretty high probability that such a migration would be accompanied by quite a lot of genocide and war.

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Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] by JBReefer on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @10:00PM (#12594873)

What, NYC vs Rockland county? That wouldn't be a genocide, it would be a zoning argument. Same as Miami vs Georgia.

If waves lap up against my place in Queens, I'm not going to start killing my neighbors. I'm going to move to a Minnesota with better weather.

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Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] by imron on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @02:12AM (#12595755)

You and how many other millions of people?

Would the Minnesotans be happy with that?

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