The great Bill Hicks view on humanity was that we are a “virus with shoes” and he was right. We go on about the cockroach’s ability to survive but I think we’ve got them beat. We’ve covered more of the earth than those little fuckers and all before the advent of modern technology.
We’ve managed largely on foot -sometimes by rudimentary boat- to spread from the savanna of Africa all the way to the southern tip of South America, creating settlements in extremely harsh places such as the deserts of Africa, Arabia and Australia, the dense jungles of the Amazon, the dense mountainous jungles of Papua New Guinea, the bitter cold of the Arctic and the frozen steppes of central Russia, the frosty, oxygen deficient high plateaus of the Andes and the Himalayas, The islands and atolls of the vast, stormy Pacific Ocean and the utter soul-sucking mundanity of Adelaide.
I can certainly see a lot of hardship and often catastrophic loss of life as a result of our changing climate but if we’ve proved one thing as humans, it’s that we’re adaptable.