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> It will also be a very gradual increase in temperature and we humans are very good at adapting and finding solutions.

Serious question: Have you ever lived in a country that was in the middle of a famine?

People 'find solutions' to that problem. They aren't pretty. Those solutions consist of 'rob', 'starve, or 'leave'.

If you live in the first world, your problem is going to be dealing with people who are taking option #3. We're barely capable of dealing with a flow of refugees from one or two countries.



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