re: #138 Edgesitter

and that is exactly my point. It won’t happen overnight, and there will be plenty of ways to take advantage of AGW. The chicken littles are nuts.

What about the millions of people who don’t have the money to relocate. Refugees are expensive and very destabilizing, even to healthy states - politics aside, the Palestinian problem costs Israel a ton of money and a lot of internal strife. Ecological issues have destabilized much of Africa (Rwanda is, among other things, a large fight over water) and is currently causing Australia a lot of money in firefighting and lost agriculture profits - again I go back to wine, because it’s the agriculture I’m most familiar with on both a practical and a business level - the current release of Australian wine is bad. Producer Molly Dooker, one of the highest-scoring and high-grossing wineries, did not produce several of their top-end lables in 2007 (that’s the current release-year of their wines) because grape quality was so bad. They instead put all their grapes in to their mid- and low-range wines. That’s a loss of ~$40US per bottle in revenue for the company as well as in export duties for the government. I tasted through the new releases 2 weeks ago, and while I’ll admint I’m not a fan of the Molly Dooker style, I know what they’re going for and it’s not nearly as good as what they used to produce. You can taste the fire and you can taste the over-extracted sugars and tannis from the drought conditions. It is, as an agricultural product, inferior and that’s 100% related to environmental conditions.