[JumpCrisscross]

> If the current climate trends continue, vast areas of the Earth may not be suitable for habitation within half that time, and we still can't seem to convince some people this is real

The areas to be rendered “uninhabitable” in our lifetimes are all poor. Hence the disconnect.

[ACCount37]

Kind of true.

The geography isn't as constrained, but what holds is that to rich first world countries, climate change is -0.5% GDP. A meaningful impact, but non-catastrophic and diffuse. To poor countries, it might mean death and suffering at scale.

[intended]

I suspect they will always “be poor”.

The rich will move away, and the people left behind will be the ones who don’t have the capacity to make any other choice.

[SJC_Hacker]

Miami is definitely not poor

[JumpCrisscross]

> Miami is definitely not poor

Whether Miami is rendered uninhabitable is an economic choice. (And one that could realistically be made solely by Miami.)

That’s simply not true in e.g. South Asia, Eastern or sub-Saharan Africa. (It’s technically a global economic choice. We could safeguard their populations at great expense.)