> In Southeast Asia, where increasingly unpredictable monsoon rainfall and drought have made farming more difficult, the World Bank points to more than eight million people who have moved toward the Middle East, Europe and North America.
Citation needed: as far as I can tell the linked report (below, a giant 260 page, 64MB PDF) says nothing at all about Southeast Asia?
The vast majority of Southeast Asia is very consistently wet and humid, which makes it an unlikely candidate to become unlivably hot. The sole major exporter of workers in the region is the Philippines, but that's mostly due to overpopulation encouraged by Catholic dogma, and there's "only" around 2M overseas workers. Where are the other 6M?
Personally, I think India is going to be largest challenge by far. It's soon the largest country in the world, it has massive water and pollution problems, and anybody who has experienced Delhi in May will agree that large parts of it are already virtually uninhabitably hot.
> The vast majority of Southeast Asia is very consistently wet and humid, which makes it an unlikely candidate to become unlivably hot.
unlivealy hot and wet [0]. Some people indeed think that the high humidity combined with a >33C temperature will soon be the leading cause of death in SE Asia, SE india, tropical africa as well as Florida, coastal georgia and SC[1]. I' disagree (or rather, i'm not quite as pestimistic) but the ;ortality in some area indeed get higher with humidity in summer
Citation needed: as far as I can tell the linked report (below, a giant 260 page, 64MB PDF) says nothing at all about Southeast Asia?
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/2...
The vast majority of Southeast Asia is very consistently wet and humid, which makes it an unlikely candidate to become unlivably hot. The sole major exporter of workers in the region is the Philippines, but that's mostly due to overpopulation encouraged by Catholic dogma, and there's "only" around 2M overseas workers. Where are the other 6M?
Personally, I think India is going to be largest challenge by far. It's soon the largest country in the world, it has massive water and pollution problems, and anybody who has experienced Delhi in May will agree that large parts of it are already virtually uninhabitably hot.