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> Rich people moving to the few lucky countries that won on the global warming and now try to isolate. Everybody else fight for scraps.

Which, if you follow the projections, will include entire Europe and North America. Seriously, read the IPCC report: impact of global warming in western world will be rather superficial, if not positive. It’s not them who is most negatively affected.




> Which, if you follow the projections, will include entire Europe and North America

So, about 1 billion people out of about 8 billion worldwide. Half of that if you were speaking of "western world" only.

Now imagine what the rest will do. And how that will impact globalized economy on which welfare of western world is built.


Oh, I know that. My point is that, contrary to what the comment I was responding to said, rich people in western world will not be moving anywhere. Rich Africans will indeed try to move to Europe/North America, but they already do, and would do so even without global warming happening.




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