On a tiny Caribbean island, hundreds of people are preparing to pack up and move to escape the rising waters threatening to engulf their already precarious homes.
If there were suddenly 10 million more people in Alaska, they wouldn’t have homes, water access, food, heat, etc.
Building out those services takes time and resources, and the issue with mass climate migrations is they are coming sooner than governments are planning for and will sap resources.
That’s not whet the user was saying, he was just giving an example of landmass proportional to a population to explain that mass displacement isn’t an issue of space.
Obviously there are other challenges, and he’s not even giving a solution, just a comparison of space.
Lot of people in this thread apparently unaware of exactly how flammable the thawed out north has turned out to be. Siberia has been pretty much continuously on fire since 2021, and you’re probably already aware of the extensive wildfire problems in Canada.
I, too, at one point had figured climate change would just push the habitable zone north and open up more of the very large continental area up there. But it turns out, that’s not going to be very habitable.
If there were suddenly 10 million more people in Alaska, they wouldn’t have homes, water access, food, heat, etc.
Building out those services takes time and resources, and the issue with mass climate migrations is they are coming sooner than governments are planning for and will sap resources.
That’s not whet the user was saying, he was just giving an example of landmass proportional to a population to explain that mass displacement isn’t an issue of space.
Obviously there are other challenges, and he’s not even giving a solution, just a comparison of space.
But land area hasn’t been a thing since the industrial revolution. The wealth of most nations isn’t dependent on sustenance farming.
You are right, infrastructure will be the biggest limiter during this crisis I feel.
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Lot of people in this thread apparently unaware of exactly how flammable the thawed out north has turned out to be. Siberia has been pretty much continuously on fire since 2021, and you’re probably already aware of the extensive wildfire problems in Canada.
I, too, at one point had figured climate change would just push the habitable zone north and open up more of the very large continental area up there. But it turns out, that’s not going to be very habitable.