Climate lies explained in 1 chart
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this is better than the meme above: http://petitionproject.org/index.php
That's still a misstating of the problem. Fucking increased plant growth is part of Climate Change. For example, we've actually seen Plant Migration as growing areas have shifted over the earth because their climates have changed.
Now how catastrophic are the changes in climate? Well, the Earth has no issues, but humans will have problems as this is going to dramatically change where and what is grown on our farms, and it may also make some cities rather untenable depending on the resulting economic shifts.
Not to mention there are serious concerns about how that change in food production might effect food and water prices, along with the potential to cause migrations (both internally and internationally).
Come on, man. The climate in the fucking 1100's was quite a bit warmer than it is now. And yet people lived in all the same places and managed just fine. The medieval warm period was VERY warm in comparison to what we are used to right now and yet there is no evidence of mass migration, city destruction and extinction. The Roman Warm period was also quite a bit warmer than it is now, a whole 2 degrees, and it is ALSO not associated with the end of civilization. Quite the opposite. Stop fear mongering.
I didn't say it was going to end civilization. Frankly, thanks to interconnected economies, the collapse of civilizations is less likely than it was in those previous periods. Climate Change has played a role in other earlier civilizations which couldn't respond to climactic shifts, but thankfully technology allows us to respond much faster.
However, that doesn't mean that we won't continue to see price shocks, rural displacement, rural poverty, the depopulation of some cities, and refugee crises. Highly centralized systems don't respond well to shocks. That's the point.
Climate Change is a bigger economic threat than Globalism is, and the Leftist systems that controlled the industrial heartland of America turned into The Rust Belt as a result of Leftist Globalism. Cleveland's population declined by 60%. Similar things happened to Detroit, Chicago, Flint, Ann Arbor, Youngstown and more.
Climate Change will have economic and political knock-on effects that will be destabalizing to our current system. You want to deal with the consequences of Climate Change? One of them is finishing the fucking border wall.
The changing climate (which isn't changing nearly as much as everybody seems to think) isn't a threat to anything. What IS a huge threat is the massive over-reaction the various governments are engaged in which WILL cause insane logistical bottlenecks and disrupt the market and availability of necessary goods through sheer centrally-planned incompetency. The market is SOOOO powerful when left alone that even IF the climate where fluctuation crazily, we would be fine.