Hurricane earliest category 5 ever
A surprisingly powerful hurricane caused near total devastation in
two
Caribbean islands; nearly all buildings there were destroyed.
Each hurricane's devastation centers on a few places, but which places
are hit each time is random. Any place in the hurricane zone could be
devastated by the next hurricane. As global heating makes for more
powerful hurricanes, buildings that formerly were probably safe become
vulnerable.
(Different terms are officially used, rather than "hurricane", for
similar storms in other parts of the world. For simplicity I write
"hurricane" to refer to all of them.)
But hurricanes are just one of the dangers we are increasing. There
are also
wildfires,
floods,
desertification,
ecological disruption,
and the spread of
tropical
diseases and parasites. Many of these disrupt food production, and that is likely to cause
mass starvation later this century.
To argue about how much some countries owe other countries because of
global heating is
divisive and shortsighted. All of humanity (and a lot of nature) is in danger from global
heating. Instead of divisiveness, civilization must unite to curb
global heating and decrease
the future danger we are creating.