New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
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According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America for centuries.

Fuck. What can we do. We are not prepared for the barbarism we are going to see. Honestly, it will make WW2 look tame.

  • Reversi [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Climate migrations from Central and South America, but they'll settle in the Midwest and northern states instead.

    Northern states will have a greater economic and political presence in regards to agriculture.

    People living on the coast will be pushed further inland. Cities with enough money will attempt to dam up the water, but that's a temporary solution.

    West will burn up. However, with lack of rainfall, that brush won't grow back as easily. So, in time, the wildfires will sort of even out.

    A reliance on imports from China as the American agricultural sector reforms itself, but of course, China will be restructuring itself too (albeit far more efficiently).

    Climate change will go from denial to "well it's a natural thing as Jesus intended" and the right will still be cutting every regulation they see.

  • Goatfucker99 [fae/faer]
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    4 years ago

    Great article with cool interactive graphics. Scary stuff. Looks like all you Ameriburgers will be moving to Ontario 🇨🇦

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I'm in Western NC and it seems like we're gonna be alright for a while at least. One of the few counties to have a net positive outcome in terms of crop yield.

      Now, what that really means is that me and all my poor friends are going to be forcefully evicted or killed so wealthy west coast refugees can take our living space.