The Middle East will become inhabitable before 2100.

What a pity.

Literally!

OP means "uninhabitable". It already is, in my opinion.

I didn't realize that they were habitable now.

It couldn’t happen to a nicer hellhole.

And where will they all go?

I hope the EU has a plan how to keep them out!

So it literally IS hell on earth over there in more ways than one.

Thoughts and Allah.

What a pity.

—the rest of the world, humming, filing nails...

😂

In the 70s people were told the entire world would be inhabitable by 2000.

"may literally become uninhabitable"

As opposed to uninhabitable

R6 To your house! Better get the guestroom ready.

[quote]This summer, several picturesque countries in the Middle East...

Now there's a lie.

R2 literally

R11, you’re such an asshole. No such idea was generally held at all. In fact, the outliers in the scientific community predicted a new ice age, not global warming. The glacial predictions were a big deal in the media back then.

Maybe Russia can take them. The central part is basically empty and Russia's population is shrinking anyway.

The rich cunts there don't spend the summers in their own countries. They are in London and other cooler parts of the world.

My friend knows some rich cunt who spends the whole of August at a 5 star hotel in NYC (the whole family). yeah, the kind that charges 800 bucks a night, for a whole month. They do that every year. But that was before the pandemic.

All because of selfish cumskins and their consoomers.

They’ll all move west, climate migration will soon begin.

What will happen to the oilfields? Will they all blow up if wildfire rages across the region? Will the carbon content rise so drastically, the rest of the planet will become inhabitable too? And will Bezos and Musk be able to escape the planet in time?

Who will be Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques if the two holy mosques are no longer there to be custodied?

R1 The rest of the world will be stuck hosting them.

It will certainly solve a problem.

People really don't know the difference between the words "inhabitable" and "uninhabitable'?

Not just the Middle East.

Allah is punishing them for all their sins.

[quote] It will certainly solve a problem.

Like Moriah.

The region will fine once the Jews go back to Europe or Brooklyn.

Just ten thousand years ago the Sahara was a wet mild savanna teeming in humans and animal life. The globe sported one to 15 million humans, I really doubt their Flintstones cars turned the Sahara into a desert.

Qaddafi had been heavily engaged in a large scale project to reclaim large tracks to the Sahara, but unfortunately some outside government had him killed before the project got very far,

[quote]Qaddafi had been heavily engaged in a large scale project to reclaim large tracks to the Sahara, but unfortunately some outside government had him killed before the project got very far,

Muammar, a man and his dream. 🙄

At some point the west is going to start refusing entry.

Ghaddafi was killed by his own people.

Shit happens

"Climate change". So much more acceptable than OVERPOPULATION, FAILED SOCIETIES, TRIBALISM, ISLAM.

r34 I remember years ago I saw the video where after the rebels captured Gaddafi they pull down his pants and poke his ass with a stick for no reason at all.

News flash: the Middle East is uninhabitable now by anyone with a post 700 A.D. mindset.

Fuck those insects. Someone ask me once if I could eliminate all Muslims with the snap of my finger, would I? Fuck, yeah.

The world would definitely be better without Islam. Pretty much all Islamic countries are hell holes of human rights abuses, corruption, crimes and medieval backwardness.

Same, r4. I saw OP's headline and though, "well, good for them, maybe that'll solve a few problems" but then I read the article and realized it was a typo.

I do kind of thing the problems plaguing the Middle East will eventually resolve by the fact that no one will be able to continue to live there.

*think, not thing

They really are, R40

See, if only we had stayed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria for another 80 years we could have waited them out.

Oh no Israel

Will probably get FF for this, but I am Lebanese, and it's heartbreaking what is happening to the region. Unfortunately due to a number of concerns (I noticed nobody in this thread said Western imperialism, proxy wars, resource pillaging, and interference), climate change [and COVID] are honestly the least of their concerns. There is no action plan, and no money going toward this. People are too busy trying to not be killed, and to put food on the table.

While i'm not surprised at the callous comment in this thread, I would caution posters that no country will be safe from (eventual) climate change. It's all fun and games now, but shit is about to get real. Even in Western utopias like USA, UK, Australia. And it will probably happen in all of our lifetimes.

All costal cities will be submerged soon

R46 Lebanon used to be an unmitigated disaster with 18 confessions vying for power and control, often assassinating one another when the going got tough. When 1 million Lebanese came together to kick the Syrians out, al Assad said that he would destroy Lebanon. And that's exactly what he did as a conduit for Iran's missiles and materiel. In 2008 in Doha, Lebanon ceased to exist as something that passes for an independent country and Iran, in the voice of Hassan Nasrallah, became Lebanon's de-facto ruler.

Don't y'all rag-head bitches even THINK of coming down here. We're full!

Lebanese, Rose. Not Lesbians!

Okay. I'm thinking tacos for dinner.

Allah hates them.

Antartica has been claimed, thanks.

Israel will be able to use science and technology keep it thriving. Large swathes of the land was inhospitable when Jews resettled their ancestral land, even the land that was ruined due to unsustainable Arab colonial farming actions, and the Jews (the ones who were not already there) restored it. They will do it once more.

The rest of the middle east, where people care more about hating Jews than helping their own people, will burn.

The Middle East will become a big OVEN r54

Middle Eastern countries (except for Israel) are completely dependent on technological expertise from the West, since they value religion and religious education over anything else. When Western engineers no longer want to live and work there they are fucked.

You mean the Middle East is actually inhabitable now?

Ah, Ugly Anscher found this thread early and has commented often.

[quote]In the 70s people were told the entire world would be inhabitable by 2000.

It’s interesting, how often rightwingers lie to make their point. It’s like they know they’re wrong on the facts, but they still want the wrong thing they want, so they just lie to get it.

R58 you'd think he'd need to sleep off the meth binges.

The same uninhabatability will happen for large swaths of California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, the Gulf, etc.

We can all move to Siberia

This is the indirect effect of climate change on human beings...if this happens, then Middle Eastern people will need to relocate, and that will cause a lot of conflict, and it will only be the beginning. More anti-immigration xenophobia around the world, more religiously based violence, more warring over territories, possibly genocides.

And it's all a given. Human beings understand that these things inevitably happen, along with disease, overpopulated areas, famine, contaminated food and water, and yet we do not change our behaviors to prevent it. We continue living greedily until the greed causes chaos and disaster.

We pride ourselves on being "the most intelligent species" because we understand things like this, and then we prove we are nothing but dumb animals who live according to instinct and not intellect and self-destruct.

But it’s our promised land

R63 ALL of which could be solved in a generation with just two words, POPULATION CONTROL. The only two words that will save the planet from wars, disease, famine, contaminated water/food, migration/invasion. But no one, not the UN, not NGOs, not governments, not no one wants to utter those two words. Keeping people hungry, keeping them worrying about where their next meal is coming from, is the primary tool used to keep despots in power, i.e., hungry people don't have time to challenge the ruling power. THAT'S the sole method to the keeping silent about population control madness.

R65 Could be in theory but not in practice because we are intelligent enough to know how to avert disaster but too dumb to do it because selfish animal desires make us dumb animals.

Who cares. What a bad area and land. I don’t get why people here are so into middle eastern men. They’re hairy entitled and act like children.

Propublica says that the ENTIRE southern half of the United States ( including the Southeast and the Southwest) will be uninhabitable by the year 2070 and that there will be mass migrations of people to the Northeast and the Upper midwest.

R68 Where did you see that? I found this from a year ago, and it projects that climate will be less ideal for human life and will lose some crop production, but not become uninhabitable.

[quote] Propublica says that the ENTIRE southern half of the United States ( including the Southeast and the Southwest) will be uninhabitable by the year 2070

From the very first Earth Day onward the script has been the same. Three generations of doom hysteria. But by now they have learned to extend the timeline far enough into the future so the audience won't yet again actually see the predictions not only fail fail but look ridiculous.

𝟭𝟴 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟬

R69- Here is a link to the article- scroll all the way down to the photo of Erika Gonzalez and her son packing their car in the dark- read the paragraph right below the photograph.

I live in Phoenix. It's very hot the majority of the year. I personally hear more complaints about the cold. (Under 70 degrees) You get used to your environment.

R70 maybe it won't be as catastrophic as predicted, but I think they're trying to get people to take some action. Anyone with eyeballs, that observes nature, can see a change in a small amount of time.

In my area, weather has been more extreme, no matter what type of weather. Animal behavior has changed and plants are struggling. There's an increase in insects that carry disease. A rare tick disease, rarely found, was reported this spring after multiple people were bitten. The fresh water quality is suffering as well, with much higher ecoli levels, due to weather.

It might not seem so bad, but small changes can lead to bigger consequences. Our crops are going to have a tough time combating droughts and invasive conditions. Since we genetically engineered them, there's not enough variety to save them if they're too compromised.

To add to the misery, there's been a quiet battle to privatize water. The public is fighting back, but it's not enough. States like New Mexico are passing legislation quietly, allowing landowners the right to own water that passes through. It's become so nasty, these landowners are placing barbed wire across rivers and large creeks to punish trespassers. There was even a murder involving a kayaker.

Some South American countries privatized all water and the people are really paying for it. This should be a warning to us.

And don't think it's not bad just because the upper classes are going about their business. There's a reason Bush bought an aquifer in South America years ago. There's a reason billionaires are snatching up property in places like NZ, where they build bunker like mansions... just in case. There's a reason Gates is invested in agricultural interests.

Obviously I can't confirm their motives, but it's something to keep an eye on. Maybe it's just all about money, but maybe there's more to it.

I'll be dead by then.

Next.

I wear hoodies in 90 degree weather. I welcome 150 degrees.

R71 It says 10 percent of people will flee northward, not that the south will be actually inhospitable to life.

Still a major change for the worse that will affect the country, but they predict that 90 percent will remain in the south by 2100.

The middle east needs to solve their own problems!!!

The end of the world has been predicted since it started. Still waiting.

The middle east will be uninhabitable by 2050, not 2100.

And where are gay men going to go when billions of Muslims flood the West?

R81 - More importantly, where are ugly old American gay men with a little money going to go for young husboys once Thailand is under water?

R82- You mean for young LADYBOYS

I don’t think gay men will exist for Thai Ladyboy’s in 50-100 years.

Shall I start investing in cheap houses in detroit and north dakota then?

Not as a gay man.

Yes, I'm buying a summertime lake house in Manitoba!

Over the past few years, I could agree to allowing a limited amount of migration from the middle east into the western countries if those western countries were involved in the wars waged in MENA over the last 20 years. HOWEVER, emptying out the middle east into western countries purely because of climate change isn't going to fly with citizens of those countries. Western countries should require African countries and Muslim countries that are still habitable to take these refugees in if those countries are receiving aid.

Mother Nature making the world a better place…

[quote] "will become..."

Because it isn't already. Okay.

The fun part will be watching the Muslims and Israelis try to outlast each other over their sacred real estate. I hope their stubbornness causes millions of deaths on both sides.

[quote]nobody in this thread said Western imperialism,

Islamic imperialism lasted centuries longer than what you think the West is doing now. You just have to look at Afghanistan to see how Islamic hell holes turn out once western forces leave the country.

Until the middle East seriously changes and adapts to reformation and enlightenment, the region will always be hell holes.

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!

R93 - Meh, I feel fine.

[quote]HOWEVER, emptying out the middle east into western countries purely because of climate change isn't going to fly with citizens of those countries. Western countries should require African countries and Muslim countries that are still habitable to take these refugees in if those countries are receiving aid.

Speaking as a Brit, didn't most of our wealth come from invading, occupying and looting many of those countries? Looks to me like the chickens have come home to roost.

Once people are extinct, the earth will cleanse it self and maybe the next form of “ intelligent” life will be smarter.

I hope it's the bees R96, they deserve the chance to take over the Earth.

Geez, OP, that's, umm, rather a big mistake you made in your subject line, isn't it? A word of advice: If you ever again feel it necessary to start a thread, you might want to spend 30 seconds to adequately proofread your one-sentence subject line.