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Some countries like Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Fiji, The Maldives, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Samoa and Nauru will cease to exist,
Other countries Bangladesh, India, Egypt, the Netherlands, Brazil, New Zealand and Tonga Will be so seriously affected that the remaining land cannot possibly support their own population.
Some countries like China, The United States and Australia may be able to survive the degradation of their productive land and their cities and even have the capacity to prosper but only if they refuse to take in the billions of refugees or provide assistance to their allies outside this borders. They may well decide to do this but the hungry people knocking at their gates will be unlikely to accept their decision or right to decide.
Nuclear weapon states China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States, India, North Korea, Pakistan and Israel are likely to punch above their weight in either defending their borders or breaching others borders.
Radical climate action if applied will require huge energy inputs as an example a small nuclear state like North Korean could on its own effect huge changes in the scale of terraforming.
Examples
NK pupulation 25m
Rising sea levels caused by climate change and exacerbated by annual flooding could overwhelm the North Korean city of Sinuiju — one of the country’s most important
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