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There’s a good Netflix documentary on this called Don’t Look Up
I think you meant to say there is a bad documentary about this on Netflix called don’t look up
https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration
- Large changes in prime zones for living and growing food
- Heat waves that will make some regions very tough to live in for portions of the year
- Heat and humidity making it deadly to be outside for long periods of time in some areas on some days
- More frequent and larger wildfires
- Sea level rise that will impact most coastal areas
- Increased flooding in some areas, intense drought in other areas
This will all have huge economic costs that will be paid by everyone. The government isn’t going to allow crop yields to drop considerably without funding new farms in the now-more-suitable north/NE. Many people will be displaced by sea level rise, fires, unsuitable conditions, and stronger hurricanes. A lot more money will be spent on mitigation than prevention.
Globally, things will be pretty bad in a lot of places. Migration from South and Central America will increase substantially as some of those areas become unlivable - people aren’t going to stay in place and starve to death. Economic and political instability from multiple refugee crises and superpowers vying for control over resources will probably lead to a variety of conflicts.
Some areas will benefit initially, but I believe the long term instability will be a massive negative for every country.
So according to this I’ll probably be retiring in Canada not Florida. I’m okay with that.
As someone living in Boulder where we would normally have had way more moisture this year, it was pretty “lit” here the past two days. 1000 people lost their homes and I am now here in a blizzard with no power/heat/way to make food for two days now. The fires wouldn’t have been as bad if we had had moisture at all this year.
“Normal Americans”….lol
This is what caught my eye too. Many questions…. To begin with:
•What are non-normal Americans?
•By calling out “normal Americans” is there an assumption that global warming only affects certain Americans?
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It’s going to be really bad on the current trajectory. Family member is doing a PhD in the area.
In Boston/NY? Frequent hurricanes and storms the city is nowhere close to ready for.
LA? Water scarcity and fires will just keep getting worse. In 50 years heatwaves will make it dangerous to go outside during the summer in LA.
Your kids can move to Wisconsin and be fine
Besides the inherent value associated with human life, the supply chain will be all messed up. Cost of Living will go way up. You think the pandemic is bad and socially limiting? Wait until storm season lasts most of the year
Buy land in Minnesota
Hahaha shhhhhhh
Chief
lol @ people in the US and Europe that watch something on Netflix and then think of not having kids because life might become *slightly less* comfortable here than it is now now.
We’re far from the kind of people that founded the first colonies
Chief
Lol ok thank you for your woke contribution.
All I’m saying is way more than half the world’s population never had anything close to our living standards. Let’s be a bit more resilient here before giving up on humanity’s future.
Chief
Our education system has failed us if we think there is a non scary version of this. You know how we’ve had like 10 “once in a thousand year” storms this year?
The carbon levels are so high that at this rate our grandkids will be the first generation that suffocates to death. This isn’t even hyperbole. The data is scary
Chief
Guys, we are literally in an ice age right now, and there is no ice at the icecaps
Can someone please explain the level of apocalyptic panic on this thread? I’m not saying that we shouldn’t care about the planet and clearly climate change is happening but like… this thread is making it sound like the earth is about to become an uninhabitable fireball within the next 50 years?! I’m really not sure why I’m still contributing to my 401k if that’s the case.
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Yes, I do think war, terrorism and economic disaster are on the table. Surviving with any semblance of our normal in the global north will depend on keeping out most of the population of the global south, leaving them to suffer and die. Which, hey, survival of the fittest or something, but not a pretty picture of humanity or what I’d want to bring future generations into. I don’t worry so much while they are children, but the kind of life they’ll be able to have as adults.
Nothing to do with Disney, I can’t tell if that was pure snark or just lack of imagination.
That’s amazing how you guys think US is different than any where in the world lol! They call it “global” warming for a reason!
I think quality of life will be affected in poorer dryer countries faster than in Manhattan so yes the US is different
Chief
You want the non scary version? Wait, so you want what will really happen or you want the carebear version?
It’s mostly fear mongering by ideologically possessed people.
If there truly is a pending “climate catastrophe” then why isn’t anyone acting like it? They still drive cars. They still generate huge amounts of waste. They still upgrade their cell phones every year. They still fly to go on vacation.
I understand worse weather will happen in North America, but for the most part we can build better homes and be prepared for that right? I’m mostly interested in actual changes to quality of life for your average American, not about islands far away being underwater
There’s nothing stopping the east coast from also developing a more arid climate as well over the long term, especially if the jet stream over North America and the Atlantic Ocean continues to erode. Fires could eventually be prevalent here too.
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Consider hurricane sandy a preview for NYC.
In the Midwest (I live in Chicago) it’s definitely wetter; I mostly shrugged on this until I learned the city sewer system basically depends on the Chicago River being higher than the lake. And, lake level is rising, so I expect there will be sewage in the streets downtown at some point.
If I didn’t already have my kids, I wouldn’t be having any. My second was born just after Trump election; that event told me the situation is not salvageable.
I lie in Colorado and a fire was 5 miles from my house that destroyed around 1000 homes last night due to abnormally dry conditions.
Not everything is flooding and high temps.