Strong disagree. I really dislike this "well, we just don't know what's going to happen!" take just because there is some uncertainty around the edges.
Just take one dead simple example that we know with a quite high degree of certainty - sea level rise. Coastal communities just happen to be where most of humanity lives (here is a nice map from the Map Porn subreddit, showing areas of equal population in the US, where the areas along the coast basically contain the same population as everything else: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fs...).
It's not hard to game out how much devastation there will be with 2, 4, 8 meters of sea level rise, and if anything we've been finding recently that our calculations of ice melt have been too conservative.
Strong disagree. I really dislike this "well, we just don't know what's going to happen!" take just because there is some uncertainty around the edges.
Just take one dead simple example that we know with a quite high degree of certainty - sea level rise. Coastal communities just happen to be where most of humanity lives (here is a nice map from the Map Porn subreddit, showing areas of equal population in the US, where the areas along the coast basically contain the same population as everything else: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fs...).
It's not hard to game out how much devastation there will be with 2, 4, 8 meters of sea level rise, and if anything we've been finding recently that our calculations of ice melt have been too conservative.