if the climate suddenly changed from the mild climate we've enjoyed for the last ten thousand years
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Jamestown was frozen out by -40 degree winters. Get a map and see where Jamestown is. The intractible cold wet weather of the Middle Ages until the 19th century moved England from growing cereals to root vegetables (and ending wine in favor of beer when grapes dating from Roman times would no longer grow). France stayed with cereals and starved, precipitating the French Revolution. Ireland got it good and hard when French and English potato imports from Mexico brought the local pathogen along for the ride.
You are a cement tunnel echoing noise. You know nothing. Melt the North Pole and Canada makes a fortune by modestly taxing shipping through its Northwest Passage. The rest of the world makes a much bigger fortune from saved shipping costs, lowered fuel consumption, and contingent lessened CO2 emissions. Capitalism means everybody benefits.
Globalization - universal opportunity creates pandemic poverty because only workers have money to spend.
