Yeah, and someone was just arguing with me in a different thread saying vertical warehouse farming is stupid and we should just grow our crops in the ground outside 🙄

Like, I'm trying to be helpful here, but sure let's continue to make no systemic changes to the way things are done and just be frustrated when our problems only continue to get worse...

lethal wet bulb temperatures

Europe wants to rebalance trade with Beijing, but can’t quit Chinese air conditioners

One country is producing all of the world's air conditioners. I wonder if they're in a better position to endure wet-bulb temperatures than their peers.

Ain’t politicking our way out of this one, chief.

They absolutely can and will. This is a country that can build the infrastructure to keep people from dying of overheating. What's more, this is the country that can export that infrastructure globally, such that its allies will see improved survivability. And that will have cascading knock-on effects.

The ability to survive climate change is the ability to operate as a global center of gravity.

Depends if we can adapt them quickly enough to survive.

Brazil has been dismantling our biotech sector for 20 years now, so I'm not optimist, but YMMV.

Anyway, I'm more optimist on avoiding problem than on dealing with it.

High temperatures don't preclude large lifeforms. Just ask the dinosaurs.

But you need the ability to adapt at speed and scale for the entire ecological colony. You can't rely on biomes that cater exclusively to a handful of apex predators.

Or peacefully migrate to areas that are sustainable and contribute to the project of rebuilding.

But, again, the capacity to build and supply life sustaining amenities and the political willingness to distribute them in order to curry political favor rather than just generate profit will be central to a country's power projection into the late 21st century.