Re:Global economy is probably in recession
by kaesar14 on Friday August 09, 2019 @01:52PM
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If that happens, we’ll adapt to the rising tides, either building infrastructure to compensate or moving inland. Florida’s likely doomed either way but other major cities don’t have to be.
I’d rather be on the side of the border that’s angry about the immigrants than the side of the border the immigrants are fleeing from.
Re:Global economy is probably in recession
by selectstatement on Friday August 09, 2019 @01:52PM
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Humans are a very adaptable species and there are no guarantees that the environment should continue as it once was perpetually. The situations in theses articles are just as likely to not happen as they are to come true.
Re:Global economy is probably in recession
by inawarminister on Friday August 09, 2019 @02:51PM
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It's important to mention that the current-ish (started 10,000 years ago in the Younger Dryas) warmth of Interglacial era made us able to settle down and practise agriculture. Before that, for millions of years - we're stuck as Hunter-Gatherers, forever in the mercy of Nature.
Perhaps in the days of tomorrow, we will once again be in the mercy of Nature? Of course not, as long as we retain our technologies. Ergo, even if you (and I agree) don't think climate change will doom humanity as a whole, I'd still be sympathetic to rational campaigns reducing it's effects.
Re:Global economy is probably in recession
by patientplatypus on Friday August 09, 2019 @01:55PM
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The situations in theses articles are just as likely to not happen as they are to come true.
Um, what? On what are you basing this likelihood on? These are scientists that study this for a living. This sounds like complete fabrication.
Re:Global economy is probably in recession
by selectstatement on Friday August 09, 2019 @03:00PM
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That doesn't mean that they can predict the future with high accuracy. They might have some chance slightly above random but there are way too many variables unconsidered.
All it takes is one asteroid to invalidate all the predictions. Or one war. Or one biological contagion. Or one technological innovation.
Also, climate change doesn't have to hit your area specifically to be harmful. Crop failures will lead to wars and displaced people. Water shortages in India lead to angry people that want to fight over Kashmir, increased migration from climate affected areas to richer areas cause ethnic tension (from North Africa to Europe, from South America to the US). As an aside, clearly the policies of nationalists are abhorrent, but they don't occur in a vacuum, and, in the US at least, the left hasn't provided a clear path to a solution to this issue.
Here's the CIA being worried about such things (https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30012019/worldwide-threat...).
Yes, this is very doom and gloom. The facts are gloomy and connecting the dots on our possible futures spells out, in all likelihood, doom. How can you not see this?