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posted by janrinok on Friday February 16 2018, @12:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the climate-refugees dept.

TheEcoExperts report

So, which country is the most likely to survive climate change?

The answer is Norway, thanks to its low vulnerability score and high readiness score. The nation's Nordic neighbours also fared well, with Finland (3rd), Sweden (4th), Denmark (6th), and Iceland (8th) landing 5 out of the 10 top spots for survivability. So we should all flee to the countries of northern Europe and the north Atlantic to live out our final days should our planet become uninhabitable.

Interestingly the UK and US did not make the top 10, ranking 12th and 15th respectively. Both these nations were named amongst the 10 countries most likely to survive climate change in our 2015 version of this map, but an overall worsening of their vulnerability and readiness scores led to this slip in rank.

Even more surprising is China's position in the ranking--59th. Despite arguably being the world's biggest contributor towards climate change--emitting a massive 9,040 metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year--the country is somewhat sensitive to the effects of a warming planet. This is largely due to the nation's growing population which is putting a strain on China's natural resources and public services. Rather ironically, China's vulnerability to climate change therefore means that they may eventually reap what they sow.

...and who are the biggest losers?

At the other end of the scale, it comes as no surprise that the world's poorest and least developed nations have the lowest chance of surviving climate change. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa fill the bottom 10 spaces for survivability, with Somalia being named the country least likely to survive climate change.

Chad, Eritrea, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo also fared badly, owing to their unstable governance, poor infrastructure, lack of healthcare, and a scarcity of food and water.

These findings serve as a stark reminder of the need for wealthier, more established countries to support the world's most vulnerable nations. This is particularly true given that many of the world's richest economies contribute the most to climate change but are in fact the least likely to be affected by it.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Entropy on Friday February 16 2018, @01:33AM (3 children)

    by Entropy (4228) on Friday February 16 2018, @01:33AM (#638578)

    Take responsibility for yourself? No way-it must be someone elses fault if you suck. https://godfatherpolitics.com/ive-got-15-kids-and-someones-gotta-pay-for-all-my-children/ [godfatherpolitics.com] .. Who is going to pay for her 15 children?

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @02:03AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @02:03AM (#638592)

    Clearly the solution there is marriage, even though divorce does in fact exist and the father of many of those children is in jail anyway. But, magically, having big daddy government recognize the relationship would fix everything. Here's my shitty cherry-picked social science studies which definitely demonstrate causation even though they don't. Now let me proceed to mock you for presenting cherry-picked garbage science studies of your own. The Bill O'Reilly school of thought sure is great.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @02:56AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @02:56AM (#638613)

      The Bill O'Reilly school of thought has two distinct advantages.

      - It's simple! Whoever said that for every problem there is a simple, elegant, and wrong solution was a poopy-head!
      - It causes more wars. Yeeehaw! I can expend all my pent-up sexual energy from following reactionary prohibitions against free love by blowing the heads off brown people! Yeeehaw!

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 16 2018, @03:06PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 16 2018, @03:06PM (#638824) Journal

    Las Vegas has drive thru marriages.

    It needs to also get drive thru divorces.

    Then put all of the drive through marriage and divorce places on a giant loop. You can drive around until you find your favorite drive thru marriage place. Then continue around the circle until you find your favorite divorce place and pull into it. Then continue.

    I'll have one marriage with a side order of 25 children please.

    I suppose Las Vegas needs a drive through "mail order brides" type place, but without the delay of mail order delivery.

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