"Surviving" and "prospering" (and even "maintaining status quo") are completely different things.
I mention this because climate change, while it might not have an outsized immediate effect on the countries that control the most guns/wealth, it could have major immediate consequences for populations with food insecurity, and therefore long-term consequences for populations that we currently consider food-secure. This extends to violent conflict as well.
Before we have a conversation about this, I urge everyone to research the degree of soil depletion in formerly-colonized Africa, and then compare that to the degree of soil depletion elsewhere in the world (including never-colonized parts of Africa).
(For bonus points, research how much of that soil depletion occurred since the end colonialism).
The numbers are widely available.
Colonial crop management was a boon for native Africans, not a bust.
I love this slanted viewpoint.
Of course deforestation, drought, erosion, population pressures, or the geologically induced and inherently low soil fertility had anything to do with it, did it? Nope, it was all the stupid white farmers fault.