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by sytelus 2550 days ago
I am really starting to worry about climate change but not because of sea level rising or other popular reasons. The big issue that no one is talking about is that the world’s densely populated areas closer to equator are having agriculture yields starting diminish due to high temperatures and land becoming more and more dessert like. In places like North America, Europe and even Siberia, the weather is becoming much more pleasant longer parts of the year and farms are appearing on scene where it was unimaginable few centuries ago. The most productive agriculture band is moving more north up leaving massive population it previously helped grow behind. This is certain to create crises we have never seen before.
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Also a schism between those who benefit somewhat and those who don't.

For many countries this is also a domestic divide rather than the traditional nationalism soaked debate that most people or news orgs focus on.

Southern US stands to lose a lot more from the charts I've seen. Surprised it isn't raised a lot more by their representatives.

"Charts" don't matter much in politics.
That's probably because when those reps were in high school, they were told that by now entire cities would be under water and storms would rule the world. It didn't happen because the panic is much more intense than the reality. So they're not going to panic this time. It's the fault of those who tried to "raise awareness".