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A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning (theconversation.com)

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In many ways, this is business as usual. Climate change is an international problem requiring international cooperation, the possibilities for which are determined by geopolitics. But this year, something more unsettling is emerging: climate change is itself beginning to impact geopolitics.

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[–] riverSpirit@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 month ago

Climate change is going to hit poorer countries hardest, but rich countries will feel it through mass migration.

Europe already struggled with refugees from Syria and Africa, and climate migration will be on a whole different scale.

Countries like Denmark just aren’t set up to handle millions of new people without major changes.

It’s going to take global cooperation and some hard decisions to deal with what’s coming.