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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
If it's basically all us, or worse, more than us (e.g. if the Earth would have been cooling if not for our impact), then we have a serious problem to deal with, which will probably require intrusive changes to Earth culture.
Why? Why is it a serious problem to deal with? Isn't a slightly warmer climate more suitable for human life anyway? Longer growing seasons, people leave their house more, etc etc etc.
I guess there will be less real estate at sea level, but people can move.
Also, in regards to dealing with this serious problem..
A) What good is done if America passes all kinds of strict regulations on businesses designed to lessen their CC impact, but at the same time Russia, China, Mexico, and other industrialized nations do nothing? Wouldn't that just put US companies at a disadvantage for no reason? What purpose is served by that?
B) I read somewhere that at the current rate of population growth, by the year 2600, there will be so many humans on earth that we would all have to stand upright, shoulder to shoulder, in order to all fit on land. Isn't it more likely that one of the other many, many, many, many consequences of overpopulation will force these 'intrusive changes to Earth culture', long before climate change does?
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