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Originally Posted by Hero Protagonist
Ok, well, I'm nowhere near informed enough on the effects of climate change to comment on all that. I assumed that large swathes of farm land would become unusable, ecosystems disrupted, and lots of heavily populated places unlivable, resulting in mass famine globally.
you assume this because this is what the propaganda machine has been spitting out for a long time. Which is absolutely not what science is predicting.
So you have a very similar level of science denial on the extrems. Climate negationists (powerful only in the usa more or less) of course go against all science which says that the world is getting hotter, and that climate is also changing some.
On the other side you have people that take that, and then take only the negatives of the worst model into account, exaggerate them some more, and leave out all the positives.
One example of the possibly biggest positive for Europe? Less heating needed in the winter means less dependance to Russian has. Which is like among the very best things that could happen to Europe. Less imports, and less geopolitical risk with vital imports from an evil country.
Regarding farm land Canada alone could provide millions of acres of more farmland to the world. And remember that land productivity there is insanely higher than in poor countries because of better techniques, more mechanization and so on.
It is actually possible that weighted by productivity climate change will actually increase arable land availability.
Point is that maybe the balance is negative. But no1 is freaking talking about this, while this should be the only conversation going on.
The radical environmental left, thanks to the ******ed position of the alt right, has managed to convince many people that agreeing on the fact that climate change is happening and will happen automatically means agreeing that it will be catastrophic for the world on net and so anything should be on the table to avoid it.
This is actually potentially worse than doing nothing. Because the totalitarian apparatus states have to implement to re-engineer the economy to go fast to 0 emission ('the wet dream scenario of the radical left's) is so disruptive to the economic as to be potentially worse than a 4-5 Celsius increase in temperatures in 1 century