Submitted by Shelfrock77 t3_yabjqr in singularity
RiverHare t1_itar4by wrote
At the end of the day It's all about consumption and it's all about taking care of the end result: and that's your children's, children's future. Those that are in their '60's and 70's primarily will live the rest of their lives fairly decent.
But in the next 30 years things won't be anywhere near what they are now. We tend to think that food, water and healthcare, like gas prices, aren't subject to price hikes or price gouging. Unless you grow your own food, drill your own oil: then you are a small percentage.
Arizona right now is leasing out farmland and water rights to Saudi Arabia, mass Chinese investors are buying homes, in Mass, across North America, OPEC is squeezing North Americans because they can. And there's nothing the president can do about it. (*That would be any standing president)
So this really is just showing you that there will be consequences, where we need to make something different, in order to either fight back or stave off, as long as possibly, The inevitability of both climate change and those that have the means to adapt with power: to those that can't...
At some point the wave is going to be crashing over the us, but we tend to see it now as just a rise in water.
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