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You are living in a dream world. Climate change will put many cities/parts of cities in "developed countries" underwater. Bigger tornadoes will rip apart those further indoor. Forest fires will decimate towns close to forests.

Either the developed world gives up on its luxuries or they will be forcefully taken by a complex climate system that is not beholden to political statements.

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Interesting that this comment, one of the only realistic ones in the entire thread, gets aggressively downvoted.

I guess we're going to have to wait until several major cities are utterly destroyed, or a few mass-heat-death events occur, before some people finally get it.

We don't have time, we don't have the resources, and we don't have the global societal cohesion to address this problem in the way a lot of the fantasists in this thread would prefer.

Didn't downvote the parent, but I'd be willing to bet that if the comment didn't lead with "You are living in a dream world" it'd be the same shade as other comments. Often it's not the point, but the tone. In the author's mind, it may've been intended as funny or light-hearted, but as bare words on a page, it comes across as personal and contemptuous.

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