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Old 05-18-2016, 05:09 AM  
BlackCrayon
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham View Post
You're missing the point. Poor people, the ill, infirm, etc. Are Fucked.

The world is doing what it has done for the last billion or so years. It's evolving and changing its climate.

It was only due to climate change that we humans evolved, walked out of Africa, don't compete with Neanderthals, see sabre tooth tigers, giant sloths, megafauna, etc. Roaming the countryside. Read this.

It's already happening now.

Water has to be the key element, assuming we don't gas ourselves to death first. Should that drop too low, crops fail people die in millions or billions? Should it rise too high, fields are swamped.

Can 7 billion survive that? NO.

Can some live off the sea? Yes, but only a select few. Which I'm sure is already being planned for the very rich and powerful.

I give it 100 years before the shit that's hitting the fan now starts to bounce back.

Now everyone can keep debating whether they will be able to afford to fill a gas guzzler, or keep the heating on.
i agree that it *could* happen but in the timeline you are talking about 100 years is nothing. it could easily be 1000-5000 years before anything major happens that will really take a chunk of the population out. regardless, this kind of climate change is really completely out of our control. sure we can do things that *might* slow it down but the reality is the earth is going to do what its going to do with or without us. for now im focused on the near future rather than that may happen in the distant.
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