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That's a lot of people to move and things to rebuild. Op did say "the current round of civilization". I also agree that lots of things changing at once are like

by mgbmtl 10y ago

That's a lot of people to move and things to rebuild. Op did say "the current round of civilization". I also agree that lots of things changing at once are likely to create instability, with negative economic and social impacts (unless governments massively intervene, which I suspect many in the US would not appreciate). I'm sure walls are an option, but they will be expensive to maintain and it doesn't take much to have big consequences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_in_New_Orleans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_in_New_Orleans

jacquesm 10y ago
And that was just on a city scale. Doing this country or continent wide is engineering on an entirely different level. NL has something like this but it's only 30 feet high and extrapolating from that experience to something able to withstand 60 meters of ocean (which is dynamic, an an average of 60 meters does not include storm surges and tides) is making me think this is infeasible.
hueving 10y ago
>That's a lot of people to move and things to rebuild. Op did say "the current round of civilization". If that's the bar for civilization ending, then civilization ended when people came to the US, ended again when they expanded out to the West, etc. Just because people on the US coasts move means little to the 60 percent of citizens that don't live near the ocean. And again, it's not going to happen overnight. A wall of water isn't coming in that will force everyone to put their things in a car and go. It will be slow build-up that slowly forces people out as they decide it's to expensive to mitigate.
- ZeroGravitas 10y ago
  "If that's the bar for civilization ending, then civilization ended when people came to the US, ended again when they expanded out to the West, etc." Interesting that your example is literally true both times for the people who where there earlier.

by mgbmtl 10y ago

jacquesm 10y ago

And that was just on a city scale. Doing this country or continent wide is engineering on an entirely different level. NL has something like this but it's only 30 feet high and extrapolating from that experience to something able to withstand 60 meters of ocean (which is dynamic, an an average of 60 meters does not include storm surges and tides) is making me think this is infeasible.

hueving 10y ago

>That's a lot of people to move and things to rebuild. Op did say "the current round of civilization". If that's the bar for civilization ending, then civilization ended when people came to the US, ended again when they expanded out to the West, etc. Just because people on the US coasts move means little to the 60 percent of citizens that don't live near the ocean. And again, it's not going to happen overnight. A wall of water isn't coming in that will force everyone to put their things in a car and go. It will be slow build-up that slowly forces people out as they decide it's to expensive to mitigate.

ZeroGravitas 10y ago
"If that's the bar for civilization ending, then civilization ended when people came to the US, ended again when they expanded out to the West, etc." Interesting that your example is literally true both times for the people who where there earlier.