Martin15 Martin15:
bootlegga bootlegga:
I'd like to know that mine will grow up in a world not beset by extreme weather, famine, war, and death.
Really ?
Only a few countries got those benefits in the past 75 years.
The rest of the world got lots of famine, war and death.
And normal weather, which killed a few million over the years.
True enough, and let's be honest, in Canada, we've never really had to deal with the sorts of conflict, famine, etc other parts of the world have. But 50 years of drought, extreme weather, and other issues caused by climate change WILL bring those problems to our doorsteps, either due to shortages here in Canada (it can be difficult to grow food in the middle of winter) or waves of migration that come crashing over us.
It wasn't climate change that did in the Roman Empire, but it was many of the same problems, mass migration of tribes across the steppes brought conflict to their borders, disease to their population, as well as droughts causing food shortages that eventually caused the collapse of the Empire.
Imagine if a massive typhoon hits Bangladesh and kills a few million people and floods half the country - those refugees will pour across borders and destabilize neighbouring countries. Then suddenly those countries have problems and send out their own waves of refugees. Eventually, those refugees will wind up here, unless Canadians are willing to sink ships/shoot down planes. I don't think even the most cold-hearted amongst us would support that.
Same goes for waves of migrants from Latin America. Think of all the consternation that one little caravan caused this summer. Imagine five or ten millions heading north because drought has killed their crops and they have nothing left. They destabilize countries as they approach the US border. Again, unless the Americans are willing to massacre thousands of people, they could pour into the US and severely weaken it.
Or what happens when the US southwest runs out of water in a couple decades? What do those millions of Americans do? Do they move to Idaho and Montana? Or do they demand Canada allows them to build some massive project like like NAWAPA or GRAND?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Ame ... r_AllianceThere are literally hundred of possible future scenarios where climate change could impact Canadians. I'm not sure who said it, but I think it was an American politician who said of Al Qaeda, "We're better off fighting them over there instead of over here."
That holds true for the world's poor - it's easier to help them where they live instead of trying to bring them all to the West.
Martin15 Martin15:
uwish uwish:
don't be so pessimistic, there has never been a better time to be alive as a human. All the matrix are moving in the right direction, despite what the alarmists want you to believe there is no extreme weather, Tornado's are dropping
Did we even have any serious hurricanes this year ?
Maybe we didn't have that many major storms this year in the Caribbean, but you should take a look at the Pacific and read up on the shit-kicking Asia (including Japan) took this year.