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by LessDmesg 2400 days ago
Sounds like fearmongering with no basis. There are lots of areas which would benefit from warming and become food producers (Siberia and Canada come to mind). As for Southeast Asians: they're already used to living on water, with stilt houses, rice terraces etc. Humans can cope, as tgey always have. Overall, there will be more water, more warmth and more civilization.
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Sure, individual humans will cope with change the best they can, but in the absence of coordinated effort they’re just refugees.

Refugees aren’t bad people, but they are desperate. They will not abide by your country’s rule of law if it means they starve as a result.

The global political environment is actively hostile to coordinated climate action. Without that, we’re just going to see a series of uncontrolled crises spilling over into neighboring nations as countries fight over limited and shifting resource patterns.

>Humans can cope

Not if other humans deny the process of "coping".