On a tiny Caribbean island, hundreds of people are preparing to pack up and move to escape the rising waters threatening to engulf their already precarious homes.
If there were suddenly 10 million more people in Alaska, they wouldn’t have homes, water access, food, heat, etc.
Building out those services takes time and resources, and the issue with mass climate migrations is they are coming sooner than governments are planning for and will sap resources.
That’s not whet the user was saying, he was just giving an example of landmass proportional to a population to explain that mass displacement isn’t an issue of space.
Obviously there are other challenges, and he’s not even giving a solution, just a comparison of space.
If there were suddenly 10 million more people in Alaska, they wouldn’t have homes, water access, food, heat, etc.
Building out those services takes time and resources, and the issue with mass climate migrations is they are coming sooner than governments are planning for and will sap resources.
That’s not whet the user was saying, he was just giving an example of landmass proportional to a population to explain that mass displacement isn’t an issue of space.
Obviously there are other challenges, and he’s not even giving a solution, just a comparison of space.
But land area hasn’t been a thing since the industrial revolution. The wealth of most nations isn’t dependent on sustenance farming.
You are right, infrastructure will be the biggest limiter during this crisis I feel.