Why?
Let's just examine what happened in the last 12 months in the U.S. as an example. In the U.S. the last month the polar vortex dropped and made everything like the arctic on the east coast which prevented the free flow of people, food and other goods going everywhere on the east coast.
Fore example, friends we have in Europe made sure they had no connecting flights through the East Coast at all because getting caught in the east coast right now can be a nightmare for travelers. So, everyone made sure they had a direct flight (no connecting flights through East coast airports) when coming home to the west coast in places like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco or Los Angeles or San Diego.
Then let's go back a few months to hurricanes in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico and the rest of the Caribbean Islands. Whole Islands were denuded so every leaf on every bush or tree had been blown away by the hurricanes with no plants or trees left alive on many islands. Anything that grew there won't recover for up to 20 years to how it was before. Some islands lost everything, houses, people and plants (either the people had to move away or die there).
Then look at the west coast with first fires and now rains and you see how many problems are on the west coast too. Most homes for example, in the mud slides had no flood insurance because they were not in a a normal flood plain but because there was no grass or shrubs or trees left alive it became a flood plain because of no plant life left to stop the rain from turning the hills into mud and rocks slides in the middle of a flash flood of everything coming down from the mountains and going out to sea about 3 miles through the middle of Montecito next to Santa Barbara.
The first thing you can say is: "Insurance costs all over are going to skyrocket or become completely unavailable nationwide in many areas."
But, if you then take this worldwide where most countries are 3rd world nations it becomes not about whether you can buy insurance or not it becomes about "Can you afford to buy food?"
And more and more the answer is going to be "NO!" because all these storms and droughts and fires cause havoc with the price of food worldwide.
So, in the U.S. it might be about whether you can insure your home or car for anything. But in other countries it becomes about "Can you afford to buy enough food to even eat!"
So, Climate change brings incredible increases to the costs of living for everyone to the point where only the upper middle class and rich are okay and more and more you are going to see people falling through the cracks of the system even in places like America.
And when this happens people have two choices. Either they can slowly starve to death or they can do illegal things to survive. And you are going to be watching people doing both a lot from now on the rest of this century worldwide.
And so this is what this century will tend to bring for the poorest among us worldwide because of Global Climate Changes.
Education likely could be the most helpful to combat crime and starvation because with education people can learn how to move, to farm to stay alive when there is enough rain to do that.
And Education, when there isn't enough rain where you are can allow a person to leave on area and move to another to start again where there is enough rain to grow food still.
Education, especially learning about other countries and other languages and cultures will allow people more easily to move to areas still habitable and not flooded out or in drought or with winds so high nothing can grow because all the plants and trees have no leaves left on them anymore.
So, the key to survival is education worldwide.
Because people who aren't educated often will just starve to death or turn to crime or terrorism out of desperation otherwise.
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