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Would this be a better framing?

- Every single place on the earth up to the year 2000 had an average temperature as well as a max and min temperature, along with a variance of predictability along those days. What do we need for our communities to stay stable if the max goes up, the min goes down, the variance of predictability goes up (and continues to go up every year)?

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It would be more accurate to bring up the expanding population of Humanity The world reached one billion for the first time in 1804. It would be more than 100 years before it reached two billion in 1927, but it took only 33 years to reach three billion in 1960. Thereafter, the global population reached four billion in 1974, five billion in 1987, six billion in 1999 and, by some estimates, seven billion in October 2011 There are more people living in more places then ever before. If a hurricane hit an area no human lived, did anybody notice?

I mean... no? That doesn't help understand how hard that is either. It is a more accurate problem spec, but it doesn't contextualize the difficulty.

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