• @Oneser@lemm.ee
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    82 years ago

    Antarctica and the north pole will likely see a significant rise in tourists/refugees, no?

    • @CosmoNova@feddit.de
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      102 years ago

      Don’t kid yourself. The north pole will just be an incredibly boring bed of dead water like any other ocean by then and Antarctica will likely be just a bunch of rocks, possibly leaking gas that was trapped under ice for millions of years. At least there will be some nature in scandinavia to look at through a big window in an air conditioned cruise ship.

      • @letmesleep@feddit.de
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        22 years ago

        Antarctica will likely be just a bunch of rocks,

        Wouldn’t that take quite a while? As far as I understand it humanity will get centuries or even millenia of an ever rising sea level. That’s gonna be fun.

    • @joostjakob@lemmy.world
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      22 years ago

      Well yeah, there might be some exceptions. But in a 4° world, economic collapse is very likely, and tourism would be one of the first industries to die out. Antarctica has no soil to speak of, so not exactly a good place to settle. The most northerly lands will indeed be interesting to settle in at some point, though I wonder how long the adjustment period would be (e.g. as long as the permafrost is melting, the ground will be unstable)