The Great Climate Migration with Abrahm Lustgarten

[@signalfire6]

This is an incredibly important topic that barely anyone is willing to discuss. At what point will you NOT be able to sell your property if it's repeatedly in the way of fires, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, unusual heat or cold?

[@aquaticborealis4877]

Investing in ways to cope with global warming in countries that need it most is by far the best way to deal with migration. Not walls.

[@chazl9531]

Sorry to say but if nothing is done to help reduce the consequences of climate change, the walls are coming and there will be billions of deaths. People in first world countries would never share resources with millions of new competitors. Especially people who don’t speak the same language or share similar cultures. You see how many Americans don’t like foreigners now ? Wait til there’s a rat race to the 1st world countries

[@simonsuppertime2589]

@@chazl9531 which is funny because all of the wealth and effort required to build, maintain, audit and patrol walls dwarfs the cost of simply helping people live simply where they are.

[@artm8dk]

It is a conservative estimate year 2070. Likely to happen way before that date.

[@jannibal9273]

I agree. Things have been speeding up and far exceeding projections of what might happen and when it might happen as charted by climate and ecological scientists. Just reading press reports on the degree of ice shelf loss at Antarctica along is frightening, going far far faster than predicted by ANY prior models.

[@donovanjones4175]

It’s already started, from east coast of Africa to South America, then up to North America. Syria had a six year plus drought, unemployment high and tomatoes costing 3 dollars, destabilizing the region.

[@Isaaca11b]

Thats my uncle. Abrahm Lustgarten

[@gamingtonight1526]

Let's face it, we've left the problem so late, it's unfixable, all the worst stories we've heard are going to come true - and then some.

[@merrywalsh2809]

Great discussion. What I hear is that if our government would stop subsidizing insurance that incentivized peoples poor decisions about where they choose to live, then people will stop moving to flood and wildfire areas of the country, or at least think twice.

[@aspenram3885]

My parents bought two houses now in wildfire country. The insurance companies won't insure against fire. They live there anyway. Their current property is worth over a million and I believe will burn in my lifetime. I don't think anything will make them change. They have a lot of pride in living dangerously and freely and not being 'controlled'.

[@merrywalsh2809]

@@aspenram3885 ah. I hope their home is clad in non-combustibles, and is within a large clearing then. And if people in flood planes build on pilings, they should be fine also.

[@simonsuppertime2589]

@@merrywalsh2809 unless they choke to death in a blanket of smoke and heat from the surrounding fires that will burn for days/weeks.

[@carollel.ternus1926]

For people moving into weather disaster prone areas, I agree. However, that doesn't address the people already in those areas who cannot move to another place. It's unbelievably expensive to move, and if you can't sell your house, or you're too poor to move, what do they do?

[@keningilbert]

At the 12:50min mark you mention a green house misting system the WFP setup in Guatemala. I would like to learn more about this. Would you please provide a link and name of this project?

[@ViceCoin]

I want to live on a houseboat, in international waters.

[@javiermontenegro3790]

Sr estoy viendo un doc suyo