Why do experts believe New Zealand is the most likely country to survive a climate collapse?
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It simply is not for our life time scale, most of the populance lives in areas that would be greatly effected by sea level rise or by excessive flood damage from high rainfall due to increased atmosphere mosture content.
It’s only bonus is it’s currently on a rising tectonic system so over thousands of years it may rise up out of the sea level rise.
In the immediate time frame it lacks the funding and civil services to quickly build infrastructure to protect from climate change. Building massive sea wall projects, hard faced drainage and controlled waterways, soils retention projects, road way protection projects are all outside of the scope of current political planing and as such New Zealand is already seeing signals of being caught short on it survival of climate change and increased weather effects.
Other countries such as as those with higher base altitude and lower standards of living will be much more likely to survive. China would be a strong contender, they have the workforce and material availability to build a large sea wall system to protect there coastline, contain rivers, and repurpose waste land for food usage. The desert reclamation projects they are currently pursuing are towards these efforts. Within 50 years they could move major affected cities and production sites to less affected areas, something other countries would struggle to do.
South America (continent) would also be a much more suited safe haven, it has huge food production capacity and high altertude refuge, plenty of resources for renewable energy.
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