Re: Someone cast Wolven Winter on New Orleans!
Besides the fact, you are at a net loss, without a doubt.
Let us forget about the insane cost to displace -billions- of people because their home is now inhospitable to human life.
Let's ponder the implications of those people having to migrate not just uphill, but into other people's lands. Can you even imagine how many people, how many population centers, would be directly and adversely affected by rising sea levels, in India and China alone? I am sure that all of those Russian farmers will be -so excited- when millions of starving, desperate, impoverished, and possibly diseased Chinese start pouring over their borders.
Maybe, have you given a thought to how many people in Europe, and in fact the entire world, live in coastal regions? Or perhaps how many people live in Mexico on the very edge of regional climactic extremes? What will the US do when Mexico has to move north or die? Will we just give them the lower states, and annex Canada?
If sea levels rise enough to begin threatening the lives, homes, and livelihoods of many millions of people, you can bet that it will only lead to war - and not just little pissy wars that America likes to start - a big war, that will necessarily involve everyone, and sadly probably degenerate to the point that someone like North Korea or Pakistan decides to go nuclear.
There is no silver lining to global climate change. Oh wait, there is one - if we annihilate our entire species, don't worry, because there will likely be enough genetic and organic material left over that another sentient species should evolve within 10-20 million years, I'm sure. That's a drop in the bucket, thankfully.
I just love the typical conservative attitude "well, if it's good for business today, it must be best for everything tomorrow!". Just fish around for some completely ignorant person to say that he is doing just as well or better than before, and suddenly you have a case for ignoring the ruination of the world. It has worked for us for at least a hundred years now, no reason to rock that boat, eh?
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