Of the Threats that Face Us, Which Will Get Us First?

At left is a good topic for a lively discussion.  Two comments:

1) One presumes we’re talking about Americans here, even though our population is about 4% of the Earth’s total.  At this point in the U.S. decline into some form of oligarchy, the rest of the world has little to lose if Trump ultimately succeeds in turning the United States into something like Russia: a couple hundred million people, living in a country with a handful of billionaires, most of the rest of whom are unhealthy, ignorant, poor, and hopeless.

2) Climate change, by contrast, doesn’t go out of its way to target Americans.  Like the dominion of Trump, however, it does inflict its pain disproportionately on the poor.  Rich people in each of the 200+ sovereign countries on the planet will continue to experience minimal harm due to the effects of global warming.  As bad as things are likely to get on this planet for the many, there will always be good things available to those who can afford them: Ivy League educations, fancy cars, fabulous real estate in what remains of the world’s habitable regions, the planet’s most attractive sex partners, and fine steak dinners.