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       Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
   DIR By: EndOfTheNationState?
       Date: June 22, 2024, 10:06 pm
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       Futurist alumnus forecasts a nomadic human future
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       > Singapore-based futurist Parag Khanna (SFS’99, G’05) uses the
       lens of geopolitics to research the forces driving mass
       migration. In his new book, MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us, he
       forecasts that despite two years of COVID-19 lockdown, the
       future of human civilization will be defined by mobility.
       >
       > What drives voluntary and involuntary mobility around the
       world, Khanna explains, are forces like political instability,
       imbalances in labor markets, and climate change. His research
       analyzes trends in civil wars and conflicts, failing economies,
       technological disruption from AI and automation, and climate
       change displacement, and then synthesizes takeaways.
       >
       > “These deep, fundamental drivers of human mobility long
       predate COVID and will long outlast COVID,” Khanna says. “The
       mass migrations of the past are not only going to continue, but
       also expand significantly, because all of these drivers are in
       overdrive.”
       >
       > In MOVE, Khanna predicts that more Asian populations will move
       into Central Asia and Russia, and that both Asian and African
       populations will move into Europe. In the Americas,
       >
       > he sees Canada taking leadership in accepting migrants, to the
       benefit of its cultural and economic future. And within the
       United States, he sees many people becoming climate migrants.
       >
       > “There’s a large number of climate refugees in America, from
       forest fires, floods, and rising sea levels,” Khanna says.
       “America itself needs to think about climate adaptation and
       migration as a domestic issue, as well as a global one.”
       >
       > MOVE also explores youth subcultures like #VanLife—in which
       young people voluntarily forego hyperconsumerism to live
       sustainably while staying digitally connected—as an important
       signal of change.
       >
       > “One of the things I learned in this process of research is to
       take young people really seriously,” Khanna says. “We need to
       rebuild our economic, social, and political institutions to
       cater to their values, because they’re actually the right values
       to have for the kind of world we’re in today.”
       >
       > Khanna says his interdisciplinary work was deeply influenced
       by his undergraduate experiences in the Walsh School of Foreign
       Service, especially in Professor Charles Pirtle’s Map of the
       Modern World class.
       >
       > “Georgetown is one of just a handful of institutions that
       continue the tradition of teaching classical geopolitical
       theory. Very few people have the breadth of knowledge across
       disciplines to actually teach it. And Charles Pirtle was that
       man for an entire generation.”
       >
       > Khanna remains close with Pirtle and connects his book to
       Pirtle’s class in particular.
       >
       > “One of the most important things that he taught us is the
       complex layering of physical, political, and human geography,”
       Khanna says. “That’s really fundamentally what MOVE is about.”
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       Will climate change drive humans extinct or destroy
       civilization?
       Almost certainly not—but unless we act quickly to stop warming
       the planet, there will be very severe consequences for many,
       many people.
       [...]
       “Human extinction is not really the main worry,” says Schlosser.
       “There are going to be some really, really bad regional and
       local consequences. Consider island nations of the world—the
       type of warming that we're heading toward, with the expected sea
       level rise that could force them in many places to retreat or
       possibly abandon their homeland, is an existential threat to
       them.”
       For many people, asking if climate change is the “end of the
       world” may be a way of asking if it’s the end of their world—if
       they should be taking steps to cope with widespread breakdowns
       in infrastructure or public services or the food supply. “And it
       depends upon where you live,” says Schlosser. “I would give a
       very different answer if you were living in the Northeast United
       States as opposed to an island nation or the coastal plains of
       Bangladesh or in the middle of the Sahel.”
       In part, this is due to unequal climate impacts: low-lying
       coastal areas facing two or three feet of sea level rise will
       suffer greatly whether they’re wealthy Miami or impoverished
       Kiribati. But there is also a basic injustice at work. Wealthier
       countries and regions have the most resources to prepare for,
       soften and recover from climate impacts. This means they’re more
       able to bounce back after a disaster strikes.
       “The most vulnerable populations are the poorest populations,”
       says Schlosser. “If we do nothing about climate change,
       conditions are going to get worse for people who are poor and
       don't have the means to cope with it.”
       [...]
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       Climate Change, the Erosion of State Sovereignty, and World
       Order
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       > CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS ATTENDANT impacts on natural resources
       have traditionally been treated as a“soft security” issue—a
       challenge to be managed, but not necessarily a disruptive factor
       in international security. Until recently, climate change was
       primarily the domain of specialized negotiators, such as
       environmental ministers and individuals present at the United
       Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
       However, this has begun to change. In response to a growing body
       of research demonstrating a significant relationship between a
       changing climate and state fragility, the foreign policy and
       security establishments of a growing number of nations have
       become increasingly concerned. A flurry of national security
       strategies, defense papers, and intelligence assessments have
       suggested that climate change is a“threat multiplier”...
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       Re: Climate refugees
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 10, 2024, 12:12 am
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       Like I was saying (2:00-2:20):
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       Re: Climate refugees
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 10, 2024, 9:28 pm
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       Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
   DIR By: Recordheat
       Date: July 24, 2024, 11:59 am
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       Not that there were dinosaurs on the planet 100,000 years ago...
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       > Once the air temperature hits 122 degrees, our bodies can no
       longer dissipate heat and our core temperature rises. But
       another study cites a much lower limit of 89.6 degrees—the
       temperature at which humans start sweating.
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  HTML https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a45806743/highest-temperature-a-human-can-survive/
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       >
       > What temperature is fatal to the human body?
       >
       > 44 °C (111.2 °F) or more – Almost certainly death will occur;
       however, people have been known to survive up to 46.5 °C (115.7
       °F). 43 °C (109.4 °F) – Normally death, or there may be serious
       brain damage, convulsions, and shock. Cardio-respiratory
       collapse will likely occur. 42 °C (107.6 °F) – Subject may turn
       red.
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       Re: Climate refugees
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: November 25, 2024, 4:16 am
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       Re: Climate refugees
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 7, 2026, 1:36 am
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       What I have been saying (and which Western civilization alone is
       to blame for):
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPqh4_55llE
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       > once uh we reach 3° C above pre-industrial baseline half of
       the human population in the whole earth dies
       > 8:068 minutes, 6 secondswhich right now is about 8.2 billion
       so about 4.1 billion people die. Um and and that is going to
       happen by
       > 8:148 minutes, 14 secondsaround 2050 or so.
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       The only thing yet undecided is which 4.1 billion die, most
       importantly whether or not the 4.1 billion will include all
       "whites" (what we want), whether the 4.1 billion will be all
       "non-whites" (what our enemies want), or if something in between
       then how the distribution will work out.
       In this regard, my prediction is not only that if rightists are
       in power all the dying will be "non-whites" (since they will not
       try to save "non-white" lives at all, and if anything may use
       the opportunity to kill even more "non-whites" than need to
       die), but also that if False Leftists are in power almost all
       the dying will still be "non-whites" (because False Leftists
       will indiscriminately try to save lives as efficiently as
       possible which means first saving those easiest to save who will
       disproportionately be "whites"). The only way we will get
       anything close to what we want is if True Leftists are in power
       who proactively discriminate against "whites".
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       > The only way you can maybe avoid it is to geoengineer the
       atmosphere to reflect
       > 25:3125 minutes, 31 secondssunlight before it enters the
       atmosphere or the lower atmosphere and heats up the earth.
       > 25:3825 minutes, 38 secondsUh but that I've talked about in
       some other videos is fraught with a lot of problems. Uh, I
       > 25:4625 minutes, 46 secondsthink we would just screw things up
       even further um doing that. But you could you
       > 25:5325 minutes, 53 secondscould put a tint essentially on the
       earth uh and uh cool it down some temporarily.
       > 26:0226 minutes, 2 secondsBut as soon as you stop putting that
       tint on because the way that they've tried to figure out how to
       do this, the
       > 26:1026 minutes, 10 secondstint essentially will last about 5
       10 years or so. Once it wears off, the earth heats up again, but
       even farther because we'd still been burning fossil fuels,
       increasing the greenhouse gases.
       > 26:2226 minutes, 22 secondsSo, I I I don't I just don't see I
       don't see that being a solution. And you need fossil fuels to
       keep putting the tint
       > 26:3026 minutes, 30 secondson, but the fossil fuels are
       running lower and lower and lower. Uh, at some point it gets to
       the point where you
       > 26:3826 minutes, 38 secondshave to choose between putting the
       continuing to put the darker and darker tint in the sky and
       having food.
       > 26:4626 minutes, 46 secondsWell, people are going to choose
       food at that at that point.
       > 26:5226 minutes, 52 secondsAnd then you can no longer tint the
       sky anymore and everything heats up in an inferno.
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       I agree.
       Woke comments:
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       > The fear of death is exactly why we got here in the first
       place. I've had this theory for over a decade now that
       thanatophobia, especially and specifically in the West, is the
       root cause of most of the ills of this world. The desire for
       eternal youth, for unrestricted growth (cancer) is a direct
       result of the paralyzing fear of death that is baked into our
       culture.
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       > Unfortunately those 4.1 billion will be all young populations
       in south america, south asia and africa these people will starve
       and die from heat while countries in the northern hemosphere
       will scramble to survive by genociding migrants from these
       areas.
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       > Or perhaps we're in the fourth turning and we need those with
       integrity to help exemplify what sovereignty in action looks
       like.
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       Sovereignty in action looks like "white" genocide.
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