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Climate Change 2: Thank God for Global Warming

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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
You mean we might actually saw Florida off once and for all? Boy, this may not be such a bad thing after all... :p
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We kill off a fair amount of LA and MS, too. So far, so good.

But I'm thinking China isn't going to relocate 1B people without having something to say.

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That largest red region? In the video it's all under the Pacific Ocean.
 
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Lots of Chinese may be moving in with Borat and his wife.
 
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Chengdu is 1600 feet ASL. Just move the capital there. Sichuan is the best regional Chinese cuisine anyway.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Chengdu is 1600 feet ASL. Just move the capital there. Sichuan is the best regional Chinese cuisine anyway.
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China already has about 30 cities the size of Houston that none of us have ever heard of. Can't be much trouble to just make 30 more inland.

It's good for the construction industry.
 
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Mexico City's going to get even more ridiculously huge and sprawling. Aren't they at like 7,000 ft.?
 
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Mexico City's going to get even more ridiculously huge and sprawling. Aren't they at like 7,000 ft.?
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It's already filled the whole valley. I'm not sure they have any more room to go out.

But the whole city is one story tall, so there's plenty of room to go up.

If I was taking bets on the first city to reach 100M, and we're not counting the Yangtze River Delta Megalopolis (which is already 150M), I'm drafting Mexico City.

That's assuming Africa does its thing like always and self-corrects.

Here's a nice little exercise in hell. Remember that almost every single person in every one of these cities will be poor, hungry, uneducated, armed, and angry.

I'll be dead.

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I'm not entirely sure I buy the premise that everyone's going to be a city mouse. But, that's where the vast majority of the jobs are going to be, so...
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I'm not entirely sure I buy the premise that everyone's going to be a city mouse. But, that's where the vast majority of the jobs are going to be, so...
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Maybe the inter tubes will save us. If we're all just pushing pixels we can live anywhere. It would not be fun to live in a city of 100M people unless you were UNBELIEVABLY wealthy. For that matter can you imagine a city of 100M in revolt? Short of subcutaneous bombs planted in your skull at birth no police state no matter how hard core could control that.

Thing is, if women just all get educated that's it for those projections. Informed women --> less religion --> fewer babies --> fewer problems. Combine it with tech improvements and a movement away from exploitative economic systems and we could have a 3B human paradise in a hundred years. Maybe give it a jump start by putting all the righties on an "Arc to Heaven" and shooting it into the Sun.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I'm not entirely sure I buy the premise that everyone's going to be a city mouse. But, that's where the vast majority of the jobs are going to be, so...
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Vast majority? That's where the vast, vast, vast, vast majority are now. In 2100, they're ALL going to be there. Save for a few thousand robo-technicians per state who are responsible for maintaining the auto-harvesters.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Vast majority? That's where the vast, vast, vast, vast majority are now. In 2100, they're ALL going to be there. Save for a few thousand robo-technicians per state who are responsible for maintaining the auto-harvesters.
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Yes, and by then they'll be able to maintain those in their flying Teslas, and fly home to the city every night if they want. :D :p
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Save for a few thousand robo-technicians per state who are responsible for maintaining the auto-harvesters.
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All of which will be done remotely.

But seriously, I see no reason for jobs to continue to cluster in the cities now that industry is being automated. I think virtual space will more and more take over business the way it took over commerce. City / country balance will be homeostatic and driven by the supply/demand of property. You can already buy 500 acres in WY for the price of a sh-tty one room flat in NYC. The one big thing holding things back now is K-12 education and once that goes online population clusters will start breaking down. People will still like living in mid density neighborhoods (suburbs are f-cking awesome!) but they won't have to be tethered to cities anymore because the working population won't be commuting into the city center.

I fully expect heterogeneity to replace sprawl and people to start recreating smalltown life again with main streets and 30k pop caps on town life. Mix in the literal death of racists, xenophobes, and Republicans in general, and we'll start seeing revived small towns dominated by intelligent, tolerant people, and then obviously those towns will completely clean the clock of any remaining backwash righty Hootervilles.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rates of deforestation in the Amazon are likely to pass 20% under Jair Bolsonaro's tenure. <br>That comes dangerously close to a tipping-point, which scientists now place at 20-25% <a href="https://t.co/3yxYdbcCNs">https://t.co/3yxYdbcCNs</a>"</p>— The Economist (@TheEconomist) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1157025821934182407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rates of deforestation in the Amazon are likely to pass 20% under Jair Bolsonaro's tenure. <br>That comes dangerously close to a tipping-point, which scientists now place at 20-25% <a href="https://t.co/3yxYdbcCNs">https://t.co/3yxYdbcCNs</a>"</p>— The Economist (@TheEconomist) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1157025821934182407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Good plan.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rates of deforestation in the Amazon are likely to pass 20% under Jair Bolsonaro's tenure. <br>That comes dangerously close to a tipping-point, which scientists now place at 20-25% <a href="https://t.co/3yxYdbcCNs">https://t.co/3yxYdbcCNs</a>"</p>— The Economist (@TheEconomist) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1157025821934182407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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I’m going to have to wake up every day and apologize to my children.
 
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