With climate change, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters to contend with, where on the planet is the safest place to live?Michael Leonard, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK(Image: Pyroclastic flows at Mayon Volcano, Philippines, 1984, United States Geological Survey)
South Africa. We don't get hurricanes, tornadoes, major floods, earth quakes, volcanoes, harldy any snow, fair weather all year, and warm sea currents.If you watch movies, we never get hit by alien invasions, nor meteorites either!
In the late 1980s I saw some projections of how Canadian climates were expected to change with global warming (at the time only 1/5th of 1% of Canada was "temperate zone" (think Southern England or Virginia) but this was expected to increase to as much as 8.5%. I'd recommend Eastern Canada and New England in North America, which was expected to warm least and get only somewhat wetter and stormier, and Scandinavia in Europe.Bits of Japan and Korea might do well. What you want is a fairly damp, temperate climate with marine influence and a good mix of landscape and climate zones.In the Southern hemisphere, I'd say New Zealand would be a good risk and possibly Northern Argentina.Let me know how that turns out.