alt Hacker News> If the current climate trends continue, vast areas of the Earth may not be suitable for habitation within half that time, and we still can't seem to convince some people this is real
The areas to be rendered “uninhabitable” in our lifetimes are all poor. Hence the disconnect.
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intended • today at 8:01 PM
I suspect they will always “be poor”.
The rich will move away, and the people left behind will be the ones who don’t have the capacity to make any other choice.
Kind of true.
The geography isn't as constrained, but what holds is that to rich first world countries, climate change is -0.5% GDP. A meaningful impact, but non-catastrophic and diffuse. To poor countries, it might mean death and suffering at scale.