Lumifer comments on [QUESTION]: What are your views on climate change, and how did you form them? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 28 July 2014 04:34:34PM 2 points [-]

So humans are likely to have optimized their location to approximately optimize their welfare.

This is VERY technology-dependent.

Only a hundred years ago southern Florida was considered not a fit place for people to live in, being, basically, a swamp infested by alligators and malaria mosquitoes.