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More time to the beach, less energy spent on heating, easier crops farming, embrace the decline.

This brought to mind fires in Australia a year or so ago where townspeople literally fled to the beach and stood in/near the water to escape fire.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50952253

More time at the beach out of necessity, less energy spent on heating because everything was on fire, no crops to bother farming!

Don’t forget to also embrace the more frequent and devastating forest fires, droughts, floods, and extreme weather!

not to mention worsening air quality, ocean acidification, rising ocean levels, and massive loss of biodiversity!!

Not to mention the collapse of global civilization!

I do wonder for some of these disasters, like forest fires and floods, if they’re caused in large part by humans settling in more places. Not caused by the people settling and developing those areas but by virtue of settling places where these things happen and thus becoming a disaster because people are there.

Forest fires and floods are a tiny, tiny sliver of the problem. Collapse of oceanic fisheries, decimation of the Amazon, and the melting of the ice caps are orders of magnitude more damaging and pressing matters.

The fires and floods are not the problem, they are the symptom.

“Embrace the decline” posted from a comfy Herman Miller chair in a heated/air conditioned room, after eating a seamless delivered burrito.

I’m sure you will be in favor of providing support to those of the hundreds of millions of climate migrants who come to your major cities?

Don't be sarcastic.[0] Beyond that, it's a bit hyberbolic to assert hundreds of millions of any sort of migrants. (Climate change seems to be this generation's nuclear winter.)

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> (Climate change seems to be this generation's nuclear winter.)

We are on the brink of major collapse of several ecosystems. It’s diminishing and disingenuous to compare that to fears of nuclear winter from a prior generation.

I’m not the person this was directed at, but i wanted to chime in anyway.

I would absolutely be in favor of paying for those refugees care with my tax dollars, especially if they were paying taxes, too, which is exactly what the US should be doing with any and all immigrants. We need cooperation, and we need accountability. This planet is a collective responsibility of ours. It’s not one country’s problem.

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