Climate Change? Nahhh ...

I'd be more worried about The Big One, personally.

 

I won't joke or be irreverent about this one.

 

The next New Madrid quake will make the San Andreas look like a back rub.
So long, @Inky_Wretch

 

I've studied New Madrid for years, and it will be bad for the whole country when it goes. Not directly, but in the form of broken transportation corridors (every Mississippi River bridge between St. Louis and Vicksburg will likely fail) and major oil and gas pipelines leading from the Gulf Coast.

Locally of course, it will be catastrophic with all that alluvial soil turning into Jello. But Memphis, which sits on a bluff, might ride it out in relatively better shape than those in the Delta. When you're talking an 8.2, everything is relative.

 

The fracking will speed that along nicely.

 

it's a religion™

Switzerland's vanishing glaciers threaten Europe's water supply

 

So, to those suggesting why bother? The person who will find a way to effectively and affordably scrub carbon from the air may have already been born. Clean energy, IE fusion, could become a reality over the next 20 years. We keep trying because we need to keep the Earth in as good a shape as we can until we actually have the knowledge and political will to fix it.

 

For alma:

 

The karst of the Ozarks will save me!

 

Rusting old karst and trailers on blocks.

 

Karst on a crutch.