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Climate catastrophe isn't so certain
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RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain
(May 11, 2012 at 12:28 pm)Napoleon Wrote: Yes that is true. It will no doubt be beneficial to slow down climate change itself. But at some point in human history we are going to experience climate change, or at least I would of thought so.

Yeah, assuming science developes, and the society becomes richer and command increasing greater financial and material resource, then it seems highly likely that the more we can delay the inevitable climate change, the less costly relative to the growing total resource of our civilization would be our efforts to adapt to it or deal with it when it comes.

As an illustration, suppose climate change came in 19th century, the total casualty from resultant famine, migration, war, and other social disruption etc might have been in hundreds of millions out of a population of a billion or two. If it comes in the end of 21st century, we might experience casaulties of millions, maybe tens of millions, out of total population of maybe nine billion.
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Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Welsh cake - May 10, 2012 at 2:31 am
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Napoléon - May 11, 2012 at 12:18 pm
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Reforged - May 11, 2012 at 9:51 am
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Napoléon - May 11, 2012 at 12:28 pm
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Anomalocaris - May 11, 2012 at 12:32 pm
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Napoléon - May 11, 2012 at 12:39 pm
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Reforged - May 11, 2012 at 4:34 pm
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Reforged - May 15, 2012 at 1:24 pm
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by LastPoet - May 16, 2012 at 9:59 am
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Polaris - May 19, 2012 at 12:04 am
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Polaris - May 22, 2012 at 11:17 am
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Polaris - May 22, 2012 at 11:54 am
RE: Climate catastrophe isn't so certain - by Polaris - May 22, 2012 at 12:39 pm

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