Nikos Papakonstantinou
1 min readMay 13, 2022

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So I guess that you know something that climate scientists, such as Dr. Peter Kalmus and the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres don't. What vertical farms? What desalination plants? Who is going to fund such projects in the areas that will be hit the hardest in the next few years, such as Africa and India? This April was the hottest of the last 122 years in India, with temperatures on the ground exceeding 60 C in some areas. It's not just the food and water, although these are obviously huge problems. People will not be able to simply survive the heat.

So how will we be able to handle the inevitable waves of climate refugees which will make our current situation look like a walk in the park? Your solutions apply, if at all, to rich countries which can afford them.

You think that 110 cm of sea level is a "problem". That's great for you, a but sea level rise of 20–40 cm will make island nations such as Tuvalu uninhabitable. Do you care to make an estimate about when that will happen? Are you going to tell these people that their "problem" is not a biblical event? That their children, who are growing up right now, will most likely become landless refugees in their lifetime?

And all that without factoring in the disaster that is the war in Ukraine and the CO2 spike which it will cause once deactivated coal plants are brought back online to cover for the lack of natural gas.

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Nikos Papakonstantinou
Nikos Papakonstantinou

Written by Nikos Papakonstantinou

It’s time to ponder the reality of our situation and the situation of our reality.

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