I know, it’s Thomas Friedman, but he’s right — large parts of the globe, including the American Southwest, will soon become uninhabitable.
When daytime temperatures routinely exceed about 120F, human life becomes unsustainable or at least highly impractical. This means that large parts of California, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and a few other states are going to experience mass outflows of desperate migrants.
This isn’t speculation. This will happen.
By 2100, the world will be so different as to be utterly unrecognizable. People as I’ve said before just have no idea.