^ Pfft, people need to give that wishful thinking a rest, dude.
This idea of global warming and available freshwater fulfilling Chicagoans’ fantasy of people bolting en masse from the coasts (which are now under water!) and the South to the shores of Lake Michigan, whereby Chicago asserts its destiny of being the supercity of the Western Hemisphere is.........like.........never gonna happen.
I used to think fondly about that possibility as well, but don’t hold your breath. Not only will it take a LONG ASS time for any of that to happen, but I’m pretty sure that over the decades the hundreds of millions living in these other regions of the country, plus innovation and investment will continue to make those parts of the country just as livable as ours.
Unfortunately, what we can’t fix is our weather, nor do we have the political will to fix the one thing that truly can be changed for the better: the legal abstraction that forces us to way overpay people for a service that they once provided us years ago (ie pensions), all because they gamed the system and future generations are forced to indentured servitude to make up for. Who the hell is going to come here to join this clusterfuck of a financial albatross?
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