CLIMATE DEFINED LIMIT

Very often we forget that our social evolution into what we term modern societies has its foundation rooted in the stable climatic regime that the Earth gifted us. The various political and legal instruments that are in place to ensure success of entities as nation states, have a climate defined limit (CDL). Since climate and ecosystem services were taken as granted, no constitution or regulation ever carried any explicit mention of CDLs.    

With our present understanding of climate change, the contours of possible CDLs have become more luminous. It is now more easy to visualize how the laws that govern our social behavior have a valid climate space. 

In other words, an individual's social behavior is likely to alter under a changed and unpredictable climatic regime. Sheer desire to ensure survival and transfer of genes will make biological evolutionary force to exert and compel individuals to disobey rule of law.

It may begin as seemingly disconnected instances of localized food/ water riots. However, such isolated instances have the potential to rapidly coalesce and scale up to cannibalism that epitomizes survival of the fittest.

Do we need to wait for the jerk to react? Would it be too late to continue to repose faith on our friends, who like us would likely be a cannibal by then? Perhaps Korowais may be able to teach us how to adapt to live in a changed planet! 

I doubt if it would be sheer muscle power than any institution.