eli5: Why melting glaciers are existential problem to humanity? or are they?
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I’ve never heard the melting of glaciers called an “existential threat” to humanity.
However they are melting and disappearing for a reason, and those reasons are going to affect a LOT more than just glaciers.
But, if we just take the melting glaciers on their own, that will either directly ilor indirectly affect weather and climate world-wide,, mess with sea levels, mess with agriculture, stress ecosystems, cause problems with fresh water supply, displace thousands of cities and hundreds of millions of people, cause wars, create millions of refugees, ruin productive land, cause all kinds of economic upheaval, cause trillions in property and real estate losses AND increased prices and desirability…………..
and plenty more.
It’s going to be complicated, expensive as hell, cause mass suffering, and will take a lot of unity and political/public will to handle in a good way, and we don’t have enough of that, lately.
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