Re: terrifying

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:38:10 -0700,
John Larkin <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in Msg. <uce9h2t33dl7inovghfog0l795j8p778ga@xxxxxxx>

And why is *every single projected effect* of global warming horrific?
Flooding, disease, storms, crop failures, parasites, extinction.

Wouldn't warming help somebody, somewhere?

Of course it would. But the problem is that global warming is happening
at a rate that is too fast for ecosystems or civilizations to adapt to.
Right now everybody (human, plant, or animal) is settled in their
particular niche, and when that niche stops to exist, changes size or
moves to a different location, things will get difficult. Nobody claims
that global warming will destroy life on Earth, or even human life, but
it will effect massive changes that will lead to serious problems for
us. The more advanced a society is the less it will be able to just pack
up the farm and go someplace else when the going gets rough.

And thinking of those few people who now live in places where nobody
else wants to live (Alaska, Greenland, Sibiria), and which might
"profit" from global warming in the sense that they might be able to
grow plant and take a swim in the lake and do all those things that
inhabitants of moderate climate zones enjoy -- maybe the just don't want
that to happen (otherwise they wouldn't have settled there in the first
place), and therefore indeed nobody profits from global warming, and
therefore its effects will be horrific for many.

Can you think of any net positive effect of global warming on humanity
in general? I'm genuinely interested.

robert
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