(May 11, 2012 at 1:53 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: I don't think Climate is an issue. The Climate of the Planet has changed many, many times.
If climate is not an issue, why do productive human population centers tend to cluster around particular climate zones and around particular local environments such as warm water ports and abundant surface water that is made possible only by the climate?
The fact that the planet's climate has changed many times is besides the point. During much of earth's history the climate is inextricably tied to environments that would kill us on contact. During parts of the other times the climate may not kill us on contact, but would make quite uncomfortable, and would probably stop much of our current infrastructure in their tracks, if not into immediate ruin.
The point is modern humans evolved under certain climate conditions, and modern infrastructure is even more sensitive to the climate. The earth may not care much if the climate change, our economy would be very sorry if the climate were to change significantly from those of the last 300 years, during which we developed our climate adapted infrastructure and demographics.
