If The Russians Engineered a Trump Victory

[Kinser79]

PBR Wrote:"Medicare for all" would solve most problems.

Is never going to happen because of the reasons I've over the course of several threads indicated.

Quote:The agricultural productivity of the world is finely tuned to the climatic patterns and topography that we have.

Yes, and since people farm and determine what to plant, and when to plant it, and how much of it to plant it can be finely tuned when that climate changes.  Who knows if you guys are right Northern Canada could be the Wheat Saudi Arabia.  

Quote:A hot-summer Mediterranean climate in California is fine because the US government can build reservoirs top detain mountain rains and snow-melt in deep, narrow canyons for release in hot summers.

Do you mean those reservoirs that are blocking salmon from swimming up to their traditional spawning beds?  Granted salmon can be farmed but it is no where near as nutritious as wild caught not to mention the massive amounts of pollution that aquaculture generates and the fact that lots of grain that could be eaten by people is used in making fish food for those "sustainable" fish.

Quote:A hot-summer Mediterranean climate in Michigan would be a disaster because Michigan lacks high mountains and deep, narrow canyons for storing water to be released in hot summers.

Even if AGW is real (I would argue that the impact of humans is much smaller than the climate alarmists would have you believe) Michigan wouldn't have a Mediterranean climate anyway.  It would likely have a humid continental climate which would be at worst case scenario resemble Northern Mississippi at worst case scenario guesses.

Quote:Man can adjust well enough to slow changes -- but not something so swift as losing so much prime farmland in lower-elevation zones in a few decades.

Over the course of decades...you do realize that people are not plants right?  That they can move.  Let us just suppose that sea levels are rising, and that they are doing so at the rate of 2.5cm per year.  That means to inundate an elevation of 10m above current sea level would require 400 years!

I think that's plenty of time to find some new farm land.

The problem with Bangladesh is that it is a river delta region and it is subsiding due to up river damming projects that India has implmented over several centuries.  The same problem Louisiana is having.

Quote: Tribalism is for people at a low level of ethical development.

Tribalism is the default state of mankind.  I would say that those who are not ethical within their own tribe cannot be ethical outside of their tribe.  It is a matter of "if one cannot be trusted with small things why should one be trusted with large things".