| > That is hardly an uninhabitable world. It might be a very different world, with all sorts of new issues to deal with. But not uninhabitable. Statements like this can be problematic because while the world in general may still be inhabitable, there could be particular regions that are not, or the damage cause by climate change can be too much for the people living there to deal with. For example: right now Karachi, Pakistan, population 15M, seems to be basically totally underwater: * https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/26/pakistan-flood... * https://www.dw.com/en/flooding-causes-havoc-in-karachi/a-547... Tuvalu and the Marshal Islands are predicted to basically disappear: * https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/may/16/o... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_climate_change_on_i... Some regions may not have the fiscal/political capital to deal with the changes wrought by climate change, and it is often the regions that did the least cause climate change that suffer the most. Most of the historical emissions that got us here were produced by the industrialized West (especially US), but they'll probably be bit the least-hard. |
Just because certain political factions make climate change into a hysterical issue, doesn’t mean that this is actually scientifically accurate.