Dying of Climate Change

Of course, it’s impossible to predict the future of climate change, but it’s improbable that this young lady will die of it.  The only way affluent white Americans will get killed  by the effects of global warming is if they are unlucky enough not to be able to escape the wildfires, hurricanes, floods, etc. that are becoming more extreme as time passes.

Yes, things will soon go from bad to worse for the world’s poor.  They will be becoming increasingly subject to disease due to the exponential growth of the populations of infection-causing insects. They will be losing their homes to sea-level rise and running out of food and potable water due to desertification.

But no matter how bad things get for the poor, we relatively wealthy Americans can always move to parts of the world that are well protected from these threats.