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by WinstonSmith84 302 days ago
Okay that's maybe dramatic, but on another hand, that would be quite fascinating to experience. Maybe, for those of us living long enough, we are going to witness a net migration not from Africa to Europe, but from Europe to elsewhere, anywhere. There is enough place on Earth for humans to resettle and it's likely that other places will become more hospitable, while other places will become less, as the climate shifts. Maybe the middle east will become just warm and hot, instead of extremely hot as it's currently - and maybe even, they will be done with tribal wars, who knows!
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> There is enough place on Earth for humans to resettle

It's romantic to imagine populations slowly moving to where life is better, haven't we always done that since out of Africa. I doubt it'll be like that when land becomes uninhabitable within decades due to changes to the experienced temperature range, rainfall, drought, fires, etc. We can't even figure out how to make space for a couple million Palestinian people. The Russians are still expanding their empire to restore their glory days. We need to figure out the whole living next to each other thing before we can resettle large populations.

> Maybe the middle east will become just warm and hot, instead of extremely hot as it's currently

I don’t want to break your fantasies, but models predict the Middle East to be come more hot and hostile, not less.

Europe is currently so hostile to receiving the people who need to move there that they might be surprised how much hostility they're met with if/when the tables turn.
Europe has the technology and experience to solve geo-social problems by turning itself into a cozy castle with high walls. The hostiles will be used as feedstock for alcalic hydrolysis at industrial scale/faster than replacement/birthing rate until the zones have been fully sanitized. Problems turned into fertilizer for nukkular powered greenhouses.