Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by jacquesm on Monday June 06, 2022 @04:50PM
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This is an interesting comment: it makes me wonder if those places that we feel are habitable really are habitable. If humanity needs to inhabit parts of the world that can not be reached unless you have a particular mode of transport then it may turn out that effectively those places are no longer inhabitable. Just like the North Pole isn't habitable. We already give up on some areas of the planet for practical reasons (mountains with too steep a slope, for instance). We'd just add more of those, and the fact that they were habitable in the past probably should not make a difference.
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Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by nonrandomstring on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @04:55AM
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Good creative analysis. I think time not distance may be adjustment we
will make first. Barring a catastrophic technology collapse I doubt
at this stage of human development we'll withdraw so fully from
wilderness and remote rural settlement. But perhaps the change we can
embrace is just chilling out. Other than firefighters and paramedics,
lifestyles where people "need" to be in a city 1000 miles away in a
few hours are untenable. Slower transport like rail and airships will
likely make something of a comeback in less dense countries.