Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: quadibloc Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:12:14 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: References: <20240913a@crcomp.net> <20240915a@crcomp.net> <20240916a@crcomp.net> <92767bb42bc741f813f2a5a131e0ce5e@www.novabbs.com> <8b0e72a9-cf0c-dd8f-0b07-cdd1136854f3@example.net> <44ba55b0-9667-f511-e884-e91e2078a4e0@example.net> <747b854a-2622-4162-68ac-159a85d14140@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2814909"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="5sGkkzIbbdADfSo2vvlQSyy6vQkiKbuCRuGoclDdANg"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: 80dce3cebe7cf4e7a35bf1a47824d0d58e41b1b7 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$HCVkDTAUcvB8O7z9Yei6weEVZWUQcCLhPcPbrRl/Hy4GLBT4GgeJ2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 2431 Lines: 22 On 9/20/24 01:23, D wrote: > Since climate, coast lines, temperatures and what ever has shifted > numerous times before (without the help of man) humanity has adapted or > moved to a better place. > > The same strategy will work now as well. For instance, where I now live, > there was once 3 km of ice (without the help of man, and it disappeared > without the help of man too), and at that time no one lived here. Now > people live here. > > So if one areas gets hot, people will move to another. There is also AC > and numerous other technologies to deal with that. No, this strategy will no longer work, because now the world is much more densely populated than in the long-past times to which you refer. Now, the world is divided into nation-atates. With borders. So if climate change prevents people in one area from growing food, they won't be able to move somewhere else and plant their crops; they will be stuck where they are, and expected to starve to death peacefully. John Savard