Climate Skepticism

[DetlefK]

5. Oh, that's easy.

Let's begin with storms: ruined harvests, increased costs for insurances, flooding, general destruction and a huge part of the yearly budget has to be set aside for repairs.
-> people get hungry and poor

Droughts: wildfires, wells drying up, ruined harvests.
-> people get hungry, thirsty and poor

People have less money -> trade stagnates -> people get poor
Nations compete about edible ressources like farm-land and groundwater -> violence -> people get angry
Nations invest more in military to secure their national interests -> less money for social/educational programs -> people get poor, dumb and violent

Combine that with the increasing gap between rich and poor in the US, with military tensions between India, China and Japan, with the onset of chinese imperialism in Africa, with oil-companies stealing and contaminating ground-water for fracking...

Summary: Climate change will cause rises in famine, drought, poverty, under-education and acceptance of violence.

What happens when nations fail? Other international superpowers will step in: Mega-corporations, too big to jail, too big to regulate, too big to control.

In the end, climate-change would endanger the social contract democracy builds on and might end in a corporate neo-feudalism.
And the Middle-Ages are an example, what happens when those in power are left unchecked.