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...cus like I hear that and, well, you see the cover image. 
Is it just that so much more of the world is underdeveloped (overexploited) and it's just raw statistics? I guess I could see that explanation. But. Also. I've been to Pheonix.
To be fair to burgerland, it’s not that they failed to handle the pandemic, they simply chose not to.
I would hazard a guess that this is more in reference to climate change causing massive and irreversible economic damage. Like, no matter how hot it gets or how bad tornadoes and hurricanes get, the stock market will still keep trucking along. The wealthiest will still be able to fly their private jets to Davos and vacation six times a year... well... somewhere, just because they can.
Nah, just racist brainworms. How climate change will affect each country is hard to predict, but I'd guess (worst to best)
Obviously, this is not ecological advice; don't trust anyone who thinks they can forecast climate change, etc.
I dont think it is... like of those countries listed canada will probably be the most fine, followed by sweden and norway and thailand i guess... but the eastern seaboard of the us is fucked, the central us is probably fucked, and denmark and netherlands aren't going to exist at all.
The first really bad effects of climate change are going to hit Africa, south America, and south east Asia the hardest. Famines, droughts, the works. That's why people say that. Don't worry though, it won't be long after that before the west deals with it just the same.
edit: A graph!
This is severe food insecurity at 2c, relative to current insecurity. Obviously at 3c and beyond it will get worse, and in more areas. But at 2c, not so much famine in the west. paper for anyone who wants to read it. This is from figure 2.
I think it's more about how temperate areas will become only slightly more unlivable whereas areas already prone to extreme temps will have it worse. Most of the world's developed countries are in temperate zones.
Even this isn't true. Areas closer to the poles are warming (and will warm) faster than ones close to the equator. And Atlantic Europe will cool as the Gulf Stream weakens.
i read the title before enlarging the image and was literally going to post that 
well if the covid lesson is anything to go by, only south korea will actually do something about it while maintaining their brutal chaebol capitalism
The "developed world" is undeveloping itself by delaying maintenance and avoiding infrastructure investment and slashing budgets for social programs, and the only plan for dealing with climate disaster seems to be "shoot refugees who flee climate disaster."
So, I'm very skeptical that they can actually deal with climate disaster.
Lol. That 2019 chart aged like milk
we were prepared and chose not to
no we weren't. All our public health institutions were hollowed out and the US was completely paralyzed and incapable of responding, even if there were the political will. We didn't have masks, couldn't produce them and have no mechanisms or apparatuses for tracing and quarantining at scale - or mass distribution of food and supplies to those in lockdown.
America would have been one of the worst festering covid-ridden shitholes on earth even if our culture and politics handled it perfectly. The damage had already been done, the copper ripped from the walls, the hospitals privatized, trust in the government gone, the production offshored, the state apparatuses defunded.
The chart was completely wrong, and it listed DPRK and Cuba as the least prepared on Earth. China near the bottom as well. The opposite turned out to be the case. This chart was just straight up huffing white supremacy.
it listed DPRK
DPRK is a hermit kingdom and also incapable of quarantining their entire country like a hermit kingdom.
They are so authoritarian that everyone has to obey commands or be launched from an anti-aircraft cannon, no way they could maintain a lockdown
They are so unproductive they spend all their time playing Potemkin Village in Pyongyang to fool 5 western tourists, no way they could pause economic activity for a lockdown
I like reminding people about the AIDS epidemic whenever COVID comes up. Two points make a line, and the trajectory looks abysmal.
American (and Western) exceptionalism at work