We all hem and haw endlessly about how bad the climate change problem is, but by not collectively DOING something about it, we're leaving it up the countries that actually have the biggest populations and have the most at stake in taking drastic action.

In America or Europe we are talking about building sea-walls and flood control systems, spending billions or trillions on preparing for rising sea levels.

What about India? China? Southeast Asia? They have far more to lose from extreme weather and wet-bulb heat events and far more people with lives at risk and less resources to put into massive concrete walls around their coastal cities. How are we going to feel when they start seeing extreme, unilateral options as viable? If they decide to do drastic geoengineering projects like shading the earth with aerosols or orbital shields, we could all suffer if those projects have unintended consequences. (The climate is complicated, yo.)

One -possible- different past. Of course, we may be wrong about what caused it to be much warmer -in Greenland- -at that time- .

One simpler example: the Earth's North polar axis may once have farther from Greenland. Plate tectonics has made this a much different planet than it was 200Million or 400M or 600M years ago, and there was possibly a time when Greenland was much farther from the pole ... and had no ice.

Or (if Charles Hapgood was right), much of the Earth's crust may have shifted it's position (think an orange-skin no longer firmly attached to the orange) over, say, 100,000 years or so.

Clickbait title. I don’t plan to be living over the next few centuries or millennia. There are plenty of reasons to not buy a beach house but this ain’t one of them.