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Rising temperatures due to climate change will strongly affect economic growth around the world, making some countries richer and some poorer.
Extreme heat, it turns out, is very bad for the economy. Crops fail. People work less, and are less productive when they do work.
That's why an increase in extremely hot days is one of the more worrisome prospects of climate change. To predict just how various countries might suffer or benefit, a team of scientists at Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, have turned to historical records of how temperature affects key aspects of the economy. When they use this data to estimate how various countries will fare with a warming planet, the news isn't good.
Because poorer countries, including those in much of South America and Africa, already tend to be far hotter than what's ideal for economic growth, the effect of rising temperatures will be particularly damaging to them. Average income for the world's poorest 60 percent of people by century's end will be 70 percent below what it would have been without climate change, conclude Hsiang and his coauthors in a recent Nature paper. The result of the rising temperatures, he says, "will be a huge redistribution of wealth from the global poor to the wealthy."
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 31 2016, @04:34PM
To paraprhase, "Dem darkies in Africa just got a tough break. It's hot in Africa, and the heat slows economic development. That's really tough, because with global warming, the economy won't develop at all. It's tough being a darkie."
At least, that's how I read the summary. There's no mention of colonialization in centuries past, or corporate colonialization today. No mention of repressive regimes, or theistic governments committing genocides. The economic situation in Africa and South America is to be attributed to the temperature making people lazy.
I went to TFA to see if it had the same tone, and yes, I found it there. People who live in economically backward parts of the world are just fucked, because things can only get worse for them. It just sucks being a black or brown person near the equator.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @04:39PM
It's your blathering nonsense that gave rise to the Trumpites.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @06:56PM
It sucks being black no matter where you are. They only places they aren't starving to death are in white countries who hand them lots of free welfare. And even in those cases, they're happily shooting each other to death in record numbers. Luckily for them, most idiots worldwide have fallen for the "DIVERSITY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVAR" lie, so we'll continue to keep importing more and taking other, successful people's money to pay for it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @07:40PM
Well, they aren't going to admit governments are to blame.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday December 31 2016, @07:47PM
Consider this scenario: In the year 2525, Europe has been flooded with African migrants and is essentially Africanized with regard to both population and culture. The degree of migration was so significant that it emptied out entire populations of African countries.
Suppose, then, that a few of the remaining Whites in Europe decided to migrate to an empty former African nation. They then create a wondrous society utilizing the arable and fertile land and solar energy to create an advanced society at the forefront of civilization, moreso than America or any other North-American nation.
In the year 3535, Europe will have long been rendered into a third-world continent, with all remnants of the Renaissance and historical enlightenment having been destroyed or forgotten there. Warlords with Jeeps and civilian cars engage in urban combat and, wherever they go, they must also rape. They get wind of the wondrous society Whites have created in Africa, with its generous welfare system for needy citizens, and so begin to head south through the Mediterranean sea and Gibraltar in the hopes of seeking asylum in Africa.
Blacks seeking asylum in Africa after fleeing Europe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @03:09AM
In the year 4545,
The wind stops, the seas are wild,
and the Earth begins to rot.
In the year 5555,
Finally Yellowstone gives way,
A planet covered in hopeless ash.
In the year 6565,
A new dark age is upon us,
Every man woman and child seeks the answer
What hath we wrought?
In the year 7510,
Maitreya Buddha will come again,
She'll look upon what we have wrought
and weep for every soul.
In the year 8510,
All sense of justice has been lost,
Enlightenment escapes us all.
In the year 9595,
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday
In the year 2525,
Europe has been flooded with African migrants,
All Africanized, the population, the culture