Quote Originally Posted by Ozme52 View Post
That's the main point Tom, because it's happened before, only we didn't recognize it nor were we "advanced" enough to deal with it. More people live at the water's edges now than ever before... and possibly more now than have lived there all together since the dawn of the Agricultural Age.

That's where our problem lies, in the impact it will have on those people. I'm guessing many of them will be able to move to the newly flourishing Sahara Savannah. As they say, it's not the heat, it's the humidity... and once the icecaps melt back a bit, there will be more moisture for rain on the currently arid areas of the world.
Is that really what will happen? I thought global warming will make the Sahara even more arid, and make it spread. I think we're shit out of luck in that department. People will simply have to move north and south, and we'll have a new higher coastline.

Here in Sweden, (or at least around Stockholm) the old coastline from before the last ice-age is still clearly visible. We know how high it will be and it's damn high. All of Stockholm will be reduced to a couple of tiny islands.

Earth isn't particularly over-populated. I read a report a while back where they stated that if all humans would go over to a vegetarian diet we could today support 60 billion people easy. Hitting that roof is a while off. I think the transition to this new world will be so slow and our markets will react so fast, that I don't think it'll be more than an inconvenience. Our cultures will adapt faster than the world changes.

The human strength is that our brains are so maleable. We can get used to anything, as long as people around us face the same difficulties. We're the mammal equivalent of a cockroach. We'll be fine. And we'll always worry about cataclysms. I think that's a genetic thing