Although true, I think headlines like this give a lot of people an impression that the First World won&#x27;t suffer. Climate change over +2C will hit the U.S. hard, and the fact that other places are worse off won&#x27;t be consolation. At the rate we&#x27;re going, that&#x27;s not future generations, it&#x27;s many of today&#x27;s working people at retirement age.<p>(For details, an excellent source is <i>Six Degrees</i> by Mark Lynas, who read 3000 peer-reviewed papers on the effects of climate change and summarized them, with extensive references.)