When the day comes when the global warming question can no longer be ignored, do you see mass violence, death?

Question

When the day comes when the global warming question can no longer be ignored, do you see mass violence, death?

Answer 1

No, I see more mass migrations of people and strife over clean water and diminishing resources.  The rich will still have their chalets, they'll be in Baffin Island, not Switzerland that's all.  It's the poor people that will take it on the chin once again.  But really, who cares.  They are poor.

Answer 2

That day will never come. Global warming will never kill large numbers of people. It will just be a very slow shift in weather patters that happens so slowly that nobody will notice. If the sea levels rise, it will happen so slowly that nobody will notice. In 100 years when the scientists say the sea may be 1 or 2 feet higher, some areas that today are subject to storm surge flooding will be abandoned, but because they were always subject to seasonal flooding nobody will really care much.

Far more people will be killed by the wars over oil, like what is going on now only 100 times worse. Assuming we don't find good alternatives soon that is.

Answer 3

no, I see it getting a few degress hotter and more people going to the beach

Answer 4

Nope,I see man adapting to any environmental changes,like they did during the ice age,during the year without a summer,and I dont buy into global warming.

Answer 5

Are you going to commit violence?

What madras have you attended?  

Did they teach you to kill infidels (capitalsits)?

Hate for capitalists is also taught by 'liberal' schools.

Everything is the fault of conservatives or capitalists - right?

Answer 6

Two key factors that have enabled humans to survive minor climate change in the past were adaptability and mobility.  Our economies are fragile and we've defined artificial borders that prevent migration.

Let's go way back in history... a few weeks.  Kenya was a bacon of stability in Africa for decades, and look how little it took for violence and chaos to take over there.  Back a little further, and Iraq and Afghanistan were run by warlords and competing factions.  Somalia has been that way for some time now.

For examples from more developed countries, look at riots in the U.S..  Chaos can break out anywhere at any time.  Consider Germany after World War II... We may get similar economic collapse and hyperinflation, but without the stabilizing force of an occupying army.  If the economy collapses and food needs to be (located and) distributed, the National Guard can't police the entire country at once.  Pockets of rioting and looting (most likely for food) could break out.  Members of police forces and the armed forces will not only be grossly outnumbered, they'll be concerned about their own families' survival, so there could be mass desertion.  

The biggest issue will be that the first few years of corporate failures, water shortages and crop failures will only be the beginning.  Banks are a foundation for our whole economic house of cards.  If they start to fall and the credibiliity of a nation's currency comes into question, all bets are off.  There could be a run on banks, which of course don't keep currency on hand for everyone to make withdrawals.  Even the people to keep a bunch under their mattress may find large bills worth less than a live chicken.

I hope it won't happen for another 20-50+ years, and we should see warning signs in developing nations first, which will give us plenty of time to prepare (arm ourselves).

All major human civilizations have passed.  It would be silly and arrogant to assume that "modern civilization" is somehow immune, even though its complexity makes it highly fragile.

Of course we could acknowledge and prevent or minimize the warming.

Answer 7

No, I see a warmer planet that has more arable land and supports much more life than a colder planet would.

Answer 8

I thought everybody now has answers on Global Warming

Answer 9

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