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_alternator_ 4 days ago

This seems like soft trolling. Global warming is canonically the opposite of a zero sum game. Everyone is losing.

anovikov 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Everyone is suffering sure, but what matters is relative degree of it. Side that suffers less, wins against others and that's the only thing that matters.

And no, in China global warming means worsening desertification, in Russia it means melting permafrost that covers 60% of the country, same in Canada. Europe and the US are uniquely positioned to suffer the least from it and many industries will win outright. For example, there will be year-round tourist season within continental EU: all summer on the Baltics and the North Sea and all winter in the Mediterranean; winemaking in Spain and southern France will suffer badly and in some places may become commercially non-viable, but will expand to great lot more territory in northern Germany, low countries, Poland, UK, thus enabling a lot richer wines due to great variety of soils.

_alternator_ 4 days ago | parent [-]

> Everyone is suffering sure, but what matters is relative degree of it.

Is that what matters?

Jensson 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> This seems like soft trolling. Global warming is canonically the opposite of a zero sum game. Everyone is losing.

No not everyone loses, people in colder climates win a lot from global warming, especially Russia and Canada. There is so much land there that is currently not viable due to being too cold that will open up from global warming.