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Originally Posted by Ethersync
The Cliff Notes Version: I am right, but I am also wrong because this time it will be different. We are all doomed so it does not matter and I am living in denial.
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You are right in stating that in the time of the dinosaurs it was much hotter yet life thrived.
You may be right in stating that 6000 years ago it was 4 degrees warmer, while I know a fair amount about civilization at that time I do not know what the temperature was then. I do know that cities appeared and dissappeared regularly as humans migrated from place to place.
This time it will be different, because we have only had a fossil carbon industrial civilization for 400 years and an oil civilization for 100 years, and we have never had a population as dense as this. Nothing like our current civilization has ever happened before.
With a few diffeence sin technology the agricultural civilization of 6000 years ago was not substantially different from the roman empire or medeival feudalism,
So, yes, this will be different. Different better, maybe. If you belive that those equatorial billions will invent new tech to adapt to heat, and not migrate, then maybe it wont be a problem.