[aqme28]

Yes, the title is exaggerated. But I think a lot of you are underestimating the societal impact of roughly half a billion climate refugees. That kind of destabilization could easily lead to societal collapse, world war, etc...

The Syrian refugee crisis meant something like a million people fleeing into Europe and it caused massive political upheavals.

[overfeed]

> But I think a lot of you are underestimating the societal impact of roughly half a billion climate refugees.

If North America and Europe enters an ice age, the preferred term would be "climate-expatriates"