whabang wrote:
Oh, I definitely don't think we're safe. Regardless of how the climate changes (because we know it will change in some ways), there will be a lot of people moving around because of it. Europe and north America won't suffer from it the same way; as you said, we have a technological advantage, allowing us to keep producing food.
What is stopping the rest of the world from adapting the same agricultural technologies? What mighty lead to trouble is running a billion chinese and indian cars on biodiesel or ethanol once the oilfields run dry. Both food and fuel will be expensive.:-(
The problem will be when larger masses of people start to move around. Both the US and the EU are making it harder for immigrants for the third world to seek refuge, and I doubt it'll get any better soon.
In one way or another, it will lead to armed conflicts. It's just a matter of how, where, and when.
But atleast we have nothing to fear from the first nations that will be obliterated by global warming, these guys,
http://www.tuvaluislands.com/, and their neghbours aren´t really as terrifying as, say the pakistani having an allout about natural resources with the indians or oilthirsty neocons that are scearching the globe for the last drop:-P
