- Guy DeBorgore
- Apr 6, 1994
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Catnip is the opiate of the masses
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A few million refugees from Syria and North Africa are causing social upheaval across Europe. There are over 150 million people in Bangladesh alone and it's one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. Forced migration of climate refugees, and the conflict that comes with that, will probably be the worst part of climate change. You might think "oh I'm an American/Canadian so we'll just accept some token number of refugees to make ourselves feel better and watch the others starve on CNN, like usual." Wrong! We're talking hundreds of millions of people displaced from their homes in a relatively short span of time (like a decade). That's like nothing we've ever seen before and that many desperate people would absolutely put a huge amount of pressure on the US and every other country.
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- Guy DeBorgore
- Apr 6, 1994
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Catnip is the opiate of the masses
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It's not going to be like Mad Max or the Road or Waterworld. And when people realize that they always shrug like "Oh well in that case I guess it'll suck but can't be THAT bad." Um, we're the most coddled human beings that have ever lived. Our idea of calamity is when the internet goes down and the local liquor store is closed. For decades the only existential threats we've had to worry about were ennui and the abstract threat of nuclear war. We literally can't imagine what a serious threat to our way of life would look like, so instead we think about fantasy stories like Mad Max. Climate change will be traumatizing.
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